TP53 and gastric cancer: We compared p53 levels and TP53 mutation status between a cohort of patients with early stage IM (defined as presence of gastric intestinal metaplasia for at least 5 years with no evidence of concurrent GC (IM-GC), and a cohort of IM patients which harboured concurrent GC which we term late stage IM (IM+GC) (Figure 1).