RELA and colorectal carcinoma: Importantly, one study in CRC patients with wild-type KRAS treated with irinotecan and monoclonal antibodies for EGFR showed tumors highly expressing p65 had less survival and chemotherapeutic response than patients with NF-κB negative tumors, suggesting the critical importance of NF-κB expression in CRC prognosis, independent of KRAS [70].