LINC01518 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Furthermore, LINC01063 has been identified as an oncogene in melanoma (Xu et al., 2022) and an autophagy-associated lncRNA capable of predicting colorectal tumor prognosis (Duan et al., 2022), while LINC01518 has been shown to function as an endogenous competing RNA in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (Zhang D. et al., 2019).