Chunfeng Pan reported that the downregulation of lncRNA BBOX1-AS1 inhibits cell proliferation and metastasis and accelerates cell ferroptosis in esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) by upregulating miR-513a-3p to reduce SLC7A11 expression (Pan et al., 2022). The gene discussed is SLC7A11; the disease is esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.