The data shows that treatments with cancer patient sera affected neither the percentage of necrotic cells (i.e. 7-AAD positive cells; 4.9 ± 0.7% vs. 4.6 ± 1.1%) nor that of apoptotic cells (AnnexinV positive and 7-AAD negative cells; 1.8 ± 0.1% vs. 1.1 ± 0.4%) (Additional file 3: Figure S2). Here, ANXA5 is linked to cancer.