Fig. 5From: Ex-vivo characterization of circulating colon cancer cells distinguished in stem and differentiated subset provides useful biomarker for personalized metastatic risk assessmentCell cycle analysis. The box plot compares S-phase percentage of adherent cells (isolated in correspondence to the working density phase and briefly expanded according to the protocol here reported for CTCs) isolated from healthy volunteers, patients affected by chronic inflammation (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) and colon cancer.**p < 0.001Back to article page