Regarding the patients' condition at the time of diagnosis (Table 2), the pathological grades were tumour G1 (96.3%, 26/27) and G2 (3.7%, 1/27), all patients had a serum gastrin levels higher than the reference range (100 pg/ml), 55.6% (10/18) of the patients had serum CgA levels higher than the reference range (100 ng/ml). The gene discussed is CGA; the disease is neoplasm.