“…Having altered post-translational modifications and/or aberrantly expressed, tumorassociated glycans can trigger an immune response [1,2,10,33]. Naturally occurring antibodies to tumorassociated glycans, including the TF glycotope, were shown to participate in antibodies-mediated tumor defence, and their level was associated with tumor progression, metastases, and patients survival [7,8,[18][19][20]. A common trend towards the decrease of the level of natural anti-TF antibody in serum was found in cancer patients [12,13,41].…”