BAX and gastric cancer: Utilizing umbilical cord blood-derived DC and CIK cells, we demonstrated that Ag-DC-CIK significantly enhanced cytotoxicity, as evidenced by the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assay, and increased apoptosis induction, indicated by elevated Bax and reduced Bcl-2 expression, in various tumor cell lines (HeLa, HCT116, MKN45) and organoids generated from a gastric cancer patient.