Further immunohistochemical analysis on BM sections of colon tumor bearing rats (Figure 5a and 5b) and colon cancer patients (Figure 5c and 5d) have shown that in tumor bearing rats and colon cancer patients, NMT is localized in the nuclei as well as in the cytoplasm of the bone marrow mononuclear cells (Figure 5b and 5d) whereas in the control bone marrow specimens it remains cytoplasmic (Figure 5a and 5c). This evidence concerns the gene NMT1 and malignant colon neoplasm.