“…4-hydroxyphenylacetate, alanine, phenylacetylglycine, mannitol, glycolate, and arginine levels were significantly correlated with cancer T stage. Together with hypoxanthine level, the above mentioned metabolites were tended toward control after surgical treatment [32] . In a study by Chen et al [33] , urinary lactic acid, arginine, leucine, isoleucine and valine were significantly higher, while citric acid, histidine, methionine, serine, aspartate, malic acid, and succinate were remarkably lower in the gastric cancer patients vs controls.…”