A Circulating Subpopulation of Monocytic Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells as an Independent Prognostic/Predictive Factor in Untreated Non-Small Lung Cancer Patients

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M-MDSC and G-MDSC subpopulations in NSCLC patients and normal controls. Percentage of monocytic (a), (b), and granulocytic (c) subpopulations of MDSCs in whole blood. Each point corresponds to an individual patient or healthy controls. The medians, 75 percentile (box), and max and min (whiskers) are represented. P values are determined by Mann-Whitney test (d). Comparison of the percentages between MDSCs subpopulations in the whole blood of the patients. Percentages indicated in the plots represent the percentages of phenotypic marker expression in the parental population, which are presented inside the brackets. The bars denote mean values SEM and the values are determined by Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test.

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