STAT3 and colorectal carcinoma: On the other hand, panel B in Fig. 2 revealed a phenomenon that CRC in fact had more individual tissues with strong staining (2+/3+ positives) for both p-Stat3 (P<0.001) and IL-17 (P<0.001), again, in keeping with the observations as shown in Table 4 (2+/3+ positives).