Kei Furuya, Masao Nakajima, Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Yuki Nakagami, Ming Xu, Hiroto Matsui, Yukio Tokumitsu, Yoshitaro Shindo, Yusaku Watanabe, Shinobu Tomochika, Noriko Maeda, Michihisa Iida, Nobuaki Suzuki, Shigeru Takeda, Shoichi Hazama, Tatsuya Ioka, Yoshinobu Hoshii, Tomio Ueno, Hiroaki Nagano
BACKGROUND: To improve the prognosis of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), investigating predictive biomarkers of their prognosis and chemotherapeutic responsiveness is necessary. This study aimed to analyze the clinical significance of serum proteinase-3 (PRTN3) as a predictor for prognosis and chemosensitivity, especially to bevacizumab therapy, in mCRC. METHODS: This single-center retrospective observational study enrolled 79 patients with mCRC in our hospital and 353 patients with colorectal cancer in the TCGA database...
February 2, 2024: BMC Cancer