Serum chitinase activity prognosticates metastasis of colorectal cancer.

Zhang-Fa SongEngeng ChenJun QianJianbin XuGaoyang CaoWei ZhouFei WangMin ChenDengyong XuXiaowei WangXiaotong HuZhenyu JuXuefeng HuangXiujun Cai

Published in: BMC cancer (2019)

Chitinase activity can prognosticate the occurrence of metastasis in patients with CRC. Moreover, the combination of chitinase activity and N stage increased the power of prognosticating the occurrence of metastasis. Inhibiting chitinase activity may serve as a new strategy to treat metastases of CRC.

Keyphrases

risk assessment
signaling pathway