Fig 6
From: Lymphocyte depletion and repopulation after chemotherapy for primary breast cancer
Smoking impacts on lymphocyte subtypes and their response to chemotherapy. Peripheral B cell and CD4+ T cells were quantified by multi-parameter flow cytometry either before chemotherapy (pre) or at time-points after the end of chemotherapy (2 weeks [2w]; 3, 6 or 9 months [3m, 6m, 9m]). Patients were divided into non-smokers (open boxes; n = 63) or smokers (filled boxes; n = 25). Data are shown as absolute counts (left panels) or relative to the matched pre-chemotherapy level (right panels). Boxes represent 50 % of the data, with medians (lines), interquartile ranges (whiskers) and individual outliers (circles). *p < =0.05 **p < 0.01