Table 4.

Testing Interleukins levels with age (var = AGEGroups), primary lung cancer or not (var = primary1yes), had chemotherapy or not in the last 6 months (chemo1yes)

	IL −10 B (IL-10 Concentration in Blood)	IL −10 P (IL-10 Concentration in Pleural fluid)	IL −17 B (IL-17 Concentration in Blood)	IL −17 P (IL-17 Concentration in Pleural fluid)
AGE(ANOVA)	P = 0,251	P = 0,969	P = 0,883	P = 0,067*
Primary or Metastatic(t-test)	P = 0,112	P = 0,114	P = 0,015	P = 0,467
Chemotherapy or not(t-test)	P = 0,127	P = 0,237	P = 0,133	P = 0,326
Type of malignancy	P = 0,002	P = 0,404	P = 0,034	P = 0,593
SEX(t-test)	P = 0,517	P = 0,037	P = 0,349	P = 0,773

*Was tested with multiple comparisons, no statistical significance reached.

**Three groups were used (var = Type_3_UN).