SRI and hepatocellular carcinoma: Furthermore, the TGGA database was also queried to verify whether SRI protein expression was significantly correlated with clinical T stage (p = 0.013), pathologic stage (p = 0.025), tumor status (p = 0.018) and OS event (p = 0.042) of HCC patients (Table 1), indicating that SRI takes part in the development and progression of HCC.