Similarly, MACC1 and HGF levels were correlated with the survival rates of gastric cancer patients (Guo et al., 2013; Dong et al., 2018), while a different study also demonstrated that MACC1 promotes the progression of epithelial ovarian cancer via the HGF/c-Met signaling pathway (Sheng et al., 2014). Here, MET is linked to gastric cancer.