CCL2 and gastric cancer: We also classified the GC cases according to their TNM stage and found that higher levels of IL-1β, IFN-γ, IL-10, and IL-8, and lower levels of MCP-1 differentiated late stage IV GC from healthy controls, and importantly, that IFN-γ and IL-10 differentiated patients with early stage (I/II) GC from healthy controls.