In the study by Edin et al. done on 485 samples of colorectal cancer, the higher numbers of CD163+ cells were clearly associated with a good prognosis [23]; a similar study on a cohort of 201 colorectal cancer patients that also demonstrated a tendency of better prognosis is the case of high CD163+ cell count, though these results were not statistically significant [24]. Here, CD163 is linked to colorectal cancer.