The patients were divided into 4 groups randomly according
to their nutrition models (Table 1). For nutritional
evaluation, anthropometric, biophysical, and laboratory
measurements were performed. The patients had nutrition
according to the determined models during the 7-day preoperative
period. TILs in the mucosal part of the endoscopic
biopsy tissue before the nutrition regimen and in the surgically
resected tumor tissue after nutrition were compared
quantitatively. Absolute levels of lymphocytes were analyzed
and compared. The microscope slides were reviewed
by 1 pathologist (SO), and CD4, CD8, CD16, CD56
counts were performed by 1 researcher (PA) in a blinded
fashion.