AF	Alexa Fluor dye
AUC	Area under the curve
CF	Cyanine-based far red fluorescent dye
CRC	Colorectal cancer
ctDNA	Circulating tumor DNA
CTCs	Circulating tumor cells
dMMR	Deficient mismatch repair
dSTORM	Direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy
EpCAM	Epithelial cell adhesion molecule
ESCRT	Endosomal sorting complexes required for transport
EVs	Extracellular vesicles
HDI	Human development index
ICI	Immune checkpoint inhibitor
IHC	Immunohistochemistry
IL-6	Interleukin-6
KRAS	Kirsten rat sarcoma virus
MMR	Mismatch repair
MSI	Microsatellite instability
NRAS	Neuroblastoma RAS oncogene
NTA	Nanoparticle tracking analysis
PD-L1	Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1
ROC	Receiver operating characteristic
RT	Room temperature
SEM	Scanning electron microscopy
UC	Ultracentrifugation
WB	Western blot