Immune Checkpoints in Intraabdominal Ascites Fluid

Colorectal cancers are the third most common type of cancer in the world. Peritoneal carcinomatosis and intraabdominal acid development occur in advanced stages of colorectal cancers. It is known that the immune system plays an important role in tumor development or tumor eradication. Among the mechanisms of escape from the immune system, changes in the tumor microenvironment play an important role. Immune checkpoints are molecules that have become popular especially after the Nobel Prize in 2018, and are important in revealing the relationship between cancer and the immune system. In our study, it is aimed to evaluate whether there is a difference in intraabdominal ascites fluid immune checkpoints level in patients with advanced colorectal cancer patients compared to patients without malignancy.