CDH2 and neoplasm: To substantiate our findings from the TCGA and GEO dataset analyses, we further verified that the expression of the three key lncRNAs to be upregulated in LUSC tumor samples compared to normal samples and, at the same time, the classic EMT phenotypes, including E-cadherin [41] and N-cadherin, were observed to downregulate and upregulate, respectively.