Case report: Spatiotemporal HER2 heterogeneity in AFP-producing gastric cancer: navigating long-term survival with

Yanwen Diao1, Haobo Yin1, Xin Sun1

  • 1Medical Oncology Department of Gastrointestinal Tumors, Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, Liaoning Key Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Cancer Translational Research, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Cancer Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Shenyang, China.

Frontiers in Immunology
|January 19, 2026
PubMed

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