FHIT and hepatocellular carcinoma: Although five out of eight liver cancer cell lines (62.5%), 12 out of 18 HCC tissues (66.7%) and 8 out of 18 paired non-tumorous liver tissues (44.4%) displayed abnormal faint bands of smaller size, sequence analysis revealed that they were aberrant FHIT transcripts lacking three or more exons and might represent alternatively spliced transcripts only.