BAX and colorectal cancer: Moreover, a positive prognostic relevance of high BAX expression in 41 colorectal cancer patients who underwent curatively intended resection of liver metastases has been reported – since a substantial proportion of these patients (71%) had received 5-FU-based cytotoxic therapy after complete surgical resection of their lesions, we feel that these data are in good concordance with ours (Sturm et al, 1999).