In the present study, we examined surgically resected tumour specimens from 213 patients with advanced gastric carcinoma using HGM, MUC6, MUC2 and CD10 immunohistochemical stainings to clarify the relation between gastric and intestinal phenotypic marker expression in gastric carcinomas and the recurrence pattern after surgery. This evidence concerns the gene MUC2 and gastric carcinoma.