PLAUR and gastric cancer: As a matter of fact, Heiss et al (1995, 1997, 2002) reported that the gastric cancer patients with cells with uPAR protein expression by immunocytology showed significantly poorer prognosis than cases without uPAR expression by Kaplan–Meier analysis in the previous study (Jauch et al, 1996; Hardingham et al, 2000).