Clinical characteristics of the incident CRC patients (n = 2,251) from the NLCS according to protein expression level (low, moderate, and high) of the individual glycolytic proteins (LDHA, GLUT1, MCT4, and PKM2) and transcriptional regulators (p53 and PTEN) are presented in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. This evidence concerns the gene PTEN and colorectal carcinoma.