LINC00857 is considered to be an oncogenic lncRNA that promotes proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells in pancreatic (Chen et al., 2022), colorectal (Chang et al., 2021) and breast (Zheng et al., 2020) cancers, and it regulates apoptosis and autophagy (Su et al., 2020). Here, LINC00857 is linked to cancer.