Fig. 2

Comparison of the levels of CRP, IL-6 and PCT between blood and solid cancer samples. The horizontal axis represents groups, where the symbol (+) represents the sample with sepsis and (−) represents the sample with other causes of fever. The vertical axis represents the biomarker level expressed in log10. The p-value for statistically significant differences between groups is represented as follows: “−“ p-value > 0.05; “*” p-value ≤ 0.05; “**”p-value ≤ 0.01.