TABLE 2.

Number of thymus and activation‐regulated chemokine samples available per time‐point

	TP1	TP2	TP3	TP4	TP5	TP6	TP7	TP8
No. of samples	96	94	94	78	60	47	12	94
No. of missing	3	3	3	9	7	7	1	3
No. of NA	0	2	2	12	32	43	88	2

Notes: A TP is not applicable when a patient does not receive therapy at that TP as described in the methods section. One patient died at the beginning of treatment, the samples of this patient from TP2–T8 are registered as NA in this table.

Samples were categorised as missing when they were not taken or taken after the start of the chemotherapy cycle. All samples were randomly missing; most patients had one TP missing, three patients had three TPs missing and one patient had six TPs missing.

Abbreviations: NA, not applicable; No., number; TP, time‐point.