%0 Journal Article %A Redondo, Maximino %A Abitei, Cristina %A Téllez, Teresa %A Fúnez, Rafael %A Pereda, Teresa %A Rodrigo, Isabel %A Betancourt, Ana M %A García-Aranda, Marilina %A Rueda, Antonio %A Martínez García, Rafael Cayetano %A Morales Suarez-Varela, María Manuela %A Zabalza, Iñaki %A Sánchez Del Charco, Matilde %A Borrero Martín, Juan José %A García Del Moral, Raimundo %A Escobar, Antonio %A Quintana, JoséMaría %A Rivas-Ruiz, Francisco %A REDISSEC-CARESS/CCR group %T Clinical-pathological characteristics and short-term follow-up associated with proliferation, apoptosis and angiogenesis in a prospective cohort of patients with colorectal tumours. %D 2019 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/26902 %X We investigate the clinical and pathological features related to variations in colorectal tumour apoptosis, proliferation and angiogenesis and the influence of the latter in short-term mortality (2 years); 551 tumour samples from a prospective cohort of patients with colorectal cancer were examined and tumour biology markers were determined as follows: percentage of apoptotic cells, by the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) dUTP Nick-End Labeling technique; Ki-67 antigen, as a cell proliferation marker and density of microvessels (as a marker of angiogenesis). An increase in the percentage of cellular apoptosis is significantly related to the presence of poorly differentiated tumours, with vascular invasion (p  %K Cell proliferation %K Ki-67 marker %K angiogenesis %K apoptosis %K colorectal neoplasms %~