Table 1.

Patients' characteristics

Pat.	Age	Sex	Tumor entity	TNM stage primary	Surgical therapy primary tumor	Chemotherapy before trAb	Radiation before trAb	EpCAM expression	HER2/neu expression
A	31	f	Gastric	pT4pN3M0	Gastrectomy	+	+	+	+
B	64	f	Ovarian	pT3pN0M0	Adnexectomy, resect. of liver met.	+	-	+	-
C	50	f	CUP	-	-	-	-	+	-
D	62	f	Ovarian	pT3pN2M0	Adnexectomy	+	-	-	+
E	59	m	Gastric	pT4pN2M1	Gastrectomy	+	-	+	+
F	35	f	Gastric	pT3pN0M0	Gastrectomy	+	-	+	-
G	38	f	Gastric	T3N+M1	-	+	-	+	-
H	51	m	Gastric	T3N+M1	-	+	-	+	-
I	62	m	Gastric	pT3pN2M1	Gastrectomy	+	-	+	-

EpCAM or HER2/neu expression of autologous tumor cells was done by APAAP immunohistochemical staining. EpCAM+ or HER2/neu+: > 10% stained cells in autologous tumor cell preparations; CUP = carcinoma of unknown primary.