In AdC, the over-expression of Trop-2 was correlated with the histological grade, lymph node metastasis and TNM stage (P= 0.01, 0.024 and 0.015, respectively), while no correlation with gender, age or ECOG-PS was observed. The gene discussed is TACSTD2; the disease is metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.