Mouse breast cancer cell (4T1) and colon cancer cell (CT26) were purchased from ATCC (Manassas, VA, USA) and cultured in RPMI-1640 complete medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). Both cell lines were cultivated with 5% at 37 °C CO2 in a humidified atmosphere and treated with G-CSF (Shenandoah Biotechnology, Warwick, PA) for either 10 days (short term) or 7 weeks (long term) at 25 ng/ml. Our previous study 20 (link) showed that the cytokine expressions after 6 weeks treatment of G-CSF were significantly different with short term groups. So we selected 7 weeks treatment in this study. Cells treated with PBS were used as the control group. Supernatants of long-term culture were saved for cytokine analysis and cell pellets were saved from RNA extraction.