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Suggest Treatment For Stage 3 Breast Cancer
My sister had stage 3 breast cancer last year had a double myst.(Apr 2013)Did really hard chemo for 6 months (finished Dec2014) did raditation for I beleive 4 two months finished(Feb2014) doing great had blood work last week and came back with really really low white count and platlet count its (Oct 2014) what can this mean?
Wed, 26 Jul 2017
I appreciate your concern. .low blood counts can be due to effect of chemotherapy on bone marrow leading to bone marrow supression and hence low counts
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