TFF3 and gastric cancer: The concentration of serum TFF3 in patients with intestinal type gastric cancer was significantly lower than that in diffuse type (43.87 ± 2.74 vs 54.72 ± 3.10, P = 0.0242), it was also reduced in patients with early gastric cancer than in those advanced gastric cancer (42.50 ± 3.32 vs 53.36 ± 2.74, P = 0.0497) (Figure 4).