Some reports have showed that high expression of Ki67, EGFR or VEGF was an unfavourable factor for GC prognosis;18, 26, 27 our findings showed that, among patients with high expression of Ki67, EGFR or VEGF, the prognosis of Hui patients was much worse than that of Han patients, which indicated that Hui patients exhibiting high expression levels of three cancer‐related genes seemed to be more susceptible to a poor prognosis. Here, EGFR is linked to gastric cancer.