MYC and gastric cancer: The findings in C. apella gastric cancer corroborate our observations in human gastric carcinogenesis, in which the presence of MYC amplification, including high amplification, was detected in all human intestinal-type gastric cancer [14], [15], [25], [26], [27], [28] and a significant increase of MYC copy number was seen with the evolution of human carcinogenesis process: normal mucosa, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer [27].