Figure 2.

Chemotherapy, Chinese herbal medicine intervention, and data collection procedures. The questionnaire and blood collection before chemotherapy represent V1 (red arrow). The first 4 rounds of chemotherapy will be performed every 3 weeks (V2 to V4), 1 day before chemotherapy treatment. The subsequent 12 rounds of chemotherapy will be performed every week (V5 to V8), 1 day before chemotherapy treatment. The patients will be followed up (FU) after chemotherapy within 1 month. V: visit.