SPAAR and cancer: Previous studies have shown that LINC00961 functions as an lncRNA to regulate cell proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis in different cancer cells (Chen et al, 2019; Huang et al, 2018; Jiang et al, 2018; Lu et al, 2018; Mehrpour Layeghi et al, 2020; Mu et al, 2022; Pan and Sun, 2019; Wu et al, 2020a; Yin et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2019).