Interestingly, in our MMR-proficient cases, we could not find any correlation between higher numbers of TIA-1+ cells and tumor expression of the anti-apoptotic marker Bcl-2, pro-apoptotic markers Apoptosis Activating Factor-1 (APAF-1) and Mammalian Sterile20-like kinase 1 (MST-1), nor with p53 or the proliferation marker Ki67 (data not shown). This evidence concerns the gene MST1 and neoplasm.