Phenotype of peripheral blood leukocytes and survival of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Abstract

We evaluated restrospectively the prognostic significance of peripheral blood leukocytes in 59 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. A phenotype of the leukocytes was analyzed by two-color flow cytometry.

Present results indicate that the NK/CD3+CD69+ ratio in peripheral blood may be an independent variable in a regression model predicting the overall survival of patients with colorectal cancer metastases to be tested in prospective studies.