Figure 8A). No difference was seen when tumor stroma was compared with lamina propria of normal colon mucosa (Figure 8B). Assessing the protein expression of both CXCL14 and CXCL16 in lymph nodes, CC patients showed no significant differences between tumor cells (P = 0.9 and P > 0.9) and other cells in H&E(+) lymph nodes when compared to cells in H&E(−) lymph nodes (P = 0.9 and P = 0.9), which is likely due to the small number of lymph nodes that could be obtained for this part of the study (Figure 8C). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL14 and neoplasm.