This study showed that a higher percentage of CD133+ cells in cancer nests was strongly associated with the lower 5-year survival rate in colon cancer patients with stage IIIB, a locally advanced disease among which most of patients would die from metastasis in spite of adjuvant chemotherapy, implying that the overpopulation hypothesis of cancer stem cell seems reasonable as CD133 is a putative marker of colon cancer stem cells. The gene discussed is PROM1; the disease is malignant colon neoplasm.