EEF1A2 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: In gastric cancers, numerous studies reported a positive association of STn expression (in serum or primary tumors) with lymph node metastasis [25,73,75,88,89,93], peritoneal metastasis [25,73,77,88] and liver metastasis [73,88] with few contradicting reports [65].