Another newly discovered lncRNA, ZFAS1, has been found to exhibits increased expression in diverse human malignancies, including colorectal cancer (Wang et al. 2022), HCC (Zhu et al. 2023a), pancreatic cancer (Zhuo et al. 2023) and laryngeal cancer (Lu et al. 2023). Here, ZFAS1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.