ANXA1 and gastric cancer: In turn, AnxA1 was studied in gastric tissue with discrepant findings, such as increased expression during gastric mucosal damage healing [18], loss of expression in metastatic gastric cancers [19], higher expression in diffuse-type gastric cancer compared to the intestinal type [20], and decreased expression in gastric adenocarcinoma, but with positive staining in advanced stage and peritoneal dissemination [21].