EPCAM and hepatocellular carcinoma: Given the overexpression of EpCAM observed in GG genotype carriers compared to GC + CC genotype carriers, our finding of apparently shorter OS in GG genotype carriers compared with the GC + CC genotype carriers is in accordance with Noh and co-workers’ suggestion that patients with positive immunohistochemical expression of EpCAM had reduced OS compared to those who were EpCAM-negative after undergoing surgical resection for HCC (43).