BECN1 and gastric cancer: These apparently contradictory phenomena have been detected in several types of cancer, including GC, in which autophagy-related proteins, such as Beclin 1 (BECN1), microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (MAP1-LC3), and p62/sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) have an important prognostic value.