Possibilities of the prognosis assessment in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma based on the peripheral blood leukocytes imunophenotype
Abstract
The recent knowledge about prognostic factors in metastatic colorectal cancer, and tumour immunology of advanced cancer is briefly reviewed in the theoretical part of this dissertation. The experimental part of the work deals with a description of investigation for relations between the peripheral blood cells imunophenotype data acquired by two-colour flow cytometry (FACS) of blood samples from 59 patients with colorectal liver metastases, and their overall survival.