ABCB1	ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (P-glycoprotein)
ABL2	Abelson tyrosine-protein kinase 2
AGO	Argonaute protein
AKT	protein kinase B
ALEX1	armadillo repeat-containing protein X-linked 1
AML	acute myeloid leukaemia
AUC	area under the curve
CAF	cancer-associated fibroblast
CAFs	cancer-associated fibroblasts
CCL20	C-C motif chemokine ligand 20
CCL22	C-C motif chemokine ligand 22
CCL5	C-C motif chemokine ligand 5
Cdks	cyclin-dependent kinases
CI	confidence interval
CIN	chromosomal instability
CLL	chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
CRISPR	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
CSC	cancer stem cell
Ct	cycle threshold
CXCL8	C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 8 (interleukin-8)
DDP	cisplatin
DFS	disease-free survival
DGCR8	DiGeorge syndrome critical region 8
DICER	endoribonuclease Dicer
DROSHA	Drosha ribonuclease III
ECM	extracellular matrix
EMT	epithelial-mesenchymal transition
EMT-TFs	Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Transcription Factors
FAM3C	family with sequence similarity 3 member C
GAS5	growth arrest-specific 5
GC	gastric cancer
GLOBOCAN	Global Cancer Observatory (Global Cancer Statistics database)
GOT1	glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase 1
GS	genomically stable
H. pylori	Helicobacter pylori
HGF	hepatocyte growth factor
HIF-1α	hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha
IFN-γ	interferon gamma
IGF	insulin-like growth factor
IL-17A	interleukin-17A
IL-1β	interleukin-1 beta
IL-6	interleukin-6
IL-8	interleukin-8
ILEI	interleukin-like EMT inducer
JAK/STAT	Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription pathway
JAK2/STAT3	Janus kinase 2/signal transducer and activator of transcription
JNK	c-Jun N-terminal kinase
lncRNA	long non-coding RNA
MALT	mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
MAPK	mitogen-activated protein kinase
MAPK1	mitogen-activated protein kinase 1
MET	mesenchymal-epithelial transition
MIF	macrophage migration inhibitory factor
miRNA	microRNA
MMPs	matrix metalloproteinases
mRNA	messenger RNA
MSI	microsatellite instability
mTOR	mechanistic target of rapamycin
ncRNA	non-coding RNA
NET	neutrophil extracellular trap
NK	natural killer (cell)
NKG2D	natural killer group 2D receptor
NLR	neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio
NTN4	netrin-4
PD-1	programmed cell death protein 1
PD-L1	programmed death-ligand 1
PI3K	phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
PLR	platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio
pre-miRNA	precursor microRNA
pri-miRNA	primary microRNA transcript
PTEN	phosphatase and tensin homolog
qRT-PCR	quantitative reverse transcription PCR
RISC	RNA-induced silencing complex
sens	sensitivity
SNAI2	Snail family transcriptional repressor 2 (Slug)
spec	specificity
TAM	tumor-associated macrophage
TAN	tumor-associated neutrophil
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
TGF-β	transforming growth factor beta
TNF	tumor necrosis factor
TNF-α	tumor necrosis factor alpha
TNM	tumor-node-metastasis (staging system)
Treg	regulatory T cell
UTR	untranslated region
VEGF	vascular endothelial growth factor
VEGF-C	vascular endothelial growth factor C
WGS	whole-genome sequencing
WT	wild-type