ELAVL1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Moreover, in a human liver cancer tissue microarray (TMA) of 59 liver tissue cores from 44 patients, also by Zhu et al. [188], HCC tumor tissues showed significantly higher overall and cytoplasmic HuR staining, compared to normal liver tissues, and this high HuR staining score correlated with worse survival of patients with early-stage HCC.