AGTR1 and gastric cancer: Overexpression of AT1-R has also been demonstrated in vivo in different tumours, including: oestrogen receptor positive breast cancers (Rhodes et al, 2009), glioblastomas (Juillerat-Jeanneret et al, 2004), ovarian cancers (Suganuma et al, 2005), squamous cell carcinomas of the skin (Takeda and Kondo, 2001) and gastric cancers (Rocken et al, 2007).