BECN1 and cirrhosis of liver: As summarized in Table 1, when dichotomized the Beclin 1 expression level into high or low, there was no significant correlation between Beclin 1 level and the clinicopathological features (all P value > 0.05), such as age, gender, tumor subtypes, tumor size, vascular invasion, HBV infection, liver cirrhosis, cholecystolithiasis, TNM stage.