Both PRSS3 and PRSS22 showed a strong highly significant positive correlation with all seven biomarkers with r-values ranging from 0.2-0.5 for LNs of stage III and 0.5-0.9 for Stage IV patients indicating that these biomarkers are probably expressed by the same population of tumor cells.
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Combined serine protease PRSS22 and CEA mRNA analysis identifies the majority of colon cancer patients that recur within 12 years.
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The median PRSS22 mRNA expression levels showed a trend of gradual increase across TNM stages: 0.003 (stage I), 0.006 (stage II), 0.005 (stage III), and 0.012 (stage IV) mRNA copies/18S rRNA unit.