Comparison of Myeloid Cells in Circulation and in the Tumor Microenvironment of Patients with Colorectal and Breast Cancers

Table 1

Characteristic features of study subpopulations.

	HD	PBC	CRC
Number	21	30	20
Gender (male : female)	9 : 12	0 : 30	13 : 7
TNM stage
I		15 (6)	2 (1)
II		11 (1)	7 (4)
III		4 (3)	10 (5)
IV		0 (0)	1 (1)
Histological grade
Well/moderate		15 (5)	16 (10)
Poor/undifferentiated		15 (5)	4 (1)

HD: healthy donors; PBC: primary breast cancer patients; CRC: colorectal cancer patients. ^∗Samples taken from patients for investigating tissue-infiltrating immune cells.