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Old Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:19 AM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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Originally Posted by Bossywife View Post
I'm curious about the "high and low" numbers. They seem quite off from what the paperwork shows for my husband's bloodwork here in Canada.
I discovered this early on. Different treatment centers and different labs that do CBC reports have different "normal", "high", and "low" cutoff points. There aren't national or international standards for blood count ranges.

The counts that we treat as either "in range" or "out of range" are really on continuous scales, so your counts could be considered very high or low, somewhat high or low, slightly high or low, borderline high or low, mostly normal, or clearly normal. Doctors know this, and look at the numbers, not the H and L marks you might see on a lab report, but patients tend to think it's a three-way choice: high, normal, low.

I suggest setting the spreadsheet to the numbers used by your treatment center, but to look at the numbers and their trends yourself, knowing that the cutoffs aren't always agree on.
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