Figure 2

Chemotherapy increases the number of Tregs. Differential distribution of Treg/Teff ratio in the peripheral blood of (A) healthy donors (HD) and non-treated cancer patients (Ca pts), and (B) Ca pts before chemotherapy (Pre-CTx) and patients after the first cycle of metronomic or standard chemotherapy administration. All samples were analyzed in duplicates. Shown are mean ratios ± SE. *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001, as estimated by the Mann–Whitney test.