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Old Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:31 PM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Low WBC and cancer

Hi Karen!
Good that you have managed the breast cancer chemo so well with G-CSF injections !

You are right when you think that chemo probably isn't OK for your hypocellular bone marrow - we hope that enough stem cells will survive.

We know that cancer can get worse if the immune system isn't working well but I have never read that low WBC can lead to cancer.

There are patients who are born with low WBC and I don't think they get cancer more frequently than other persons.

Kind regards
Birgitta-A
75 yo, dx MDS Interm-1 with severe fibrosis and hypocellularity 2006. Supportive therapy until 2010. Treated with the immunmodulating drugs Thalidomide and Revlimid 2010-2014. Now AML and homecare with blood txs and G-CSF (Nivestim).
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