Using the available data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia https://portals.broadinstitute.org/ccle/about) and COSMIC (https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic) databases, we investigated the expression levels of SREBF1, SCD and FASN to select two NSCLC cell lines with intermediate gene expression levels for the three genes. This evidence concerns the gene FASN and non-small cell lung carcinoma.