Relationship between microsatellite instability and hepatocyte growth factor expression and their prognostic significance in colorectal cancer

Objective To investigate the expression of hepatocyte growth factor(HGF)and its relationship with microsatellite instability(MSI)and their influence on survival in patients with colorectal cancer.Methods Immunohistochemistry(IHC)was used to detect the expression of HGF and MSI in 98 specimens of colorectal cancer.Tumors lacking protein expression of any of the our mis-