Table 5.

Medians of biomarkers (pg/mL) on the day 1 of fever in patients receiving filgrastim or not. ^∗Mann–Whitney and median tests; ^‡Mann–Whitney test; ^†determined by Monte Carlo simulation with 10,000 tables.

	Filgrastim	No filgrastim	P	P 99% CI†
G-CSF	5838	302.9	0.000∗	0.000-0.000
IL-8	155.4	58.2	0.011‡	0.006–0.011
IL-6	132	39.5	0.007∗	0.003–0.007
IL-10	5.51	1.2	0.004‡	0.002–0.04
PCT	223.3	98.1	0.07‡	0.06–0.08