Additionally, immunohistochemical analysis of IL‐17A, E‐cadherin and N‐cadherin on the TMA that included 313 HCC tumour specimens from patients with HCC who underwent surgical resection at EHBH revealed consistent results (Figs 1G,H and S1E) (Tao et al., 2015). Here, CDH1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.