Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiling in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colon Cancer Surgery. Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiling in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colon Cancer Surgery

We performed whole blood gene expression profiling in 26 patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer stage I-III UICC. Saples were taken the day before surgery (-1), day one postoperatively (+1) and day 10 postoperatively (+10). The aim of the study was to investigate whether gene expression was altered after laparoscopic colon cancer surgery. Overall design: The study includes 26 patients with gene expression performed at 3 timepoint (=78 gene whole gele-expression analysis). There are no controlls and no replicates included. Name of sample indicates ID for the patient and day of sample.