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Cancer and cancer treatment often cause drops in blood count levels. The problems caused by low blood count s depend on which type of blood cell is affected.
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Cancer and its treatment weaken your child's immune system by affecting the white blood cells that protect us against disease and germs.
Cancer and cancer treatments can lower the number of platelets in your blood.
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) cause low blood count s, which can be found on blood tests, sometimes even before symptoms appear.
Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, stem cell or bone marrow transplant, steroids, or the cancer itself can suppress or weaken the immune system.
Many cancer treatments and cancers can cause changes in your blood count s. A low white blood cell (WBC) count can put you at higher risk of infection.
To have a transfusion means to get blood or some part of it. Learn more about how blood transfusions are used for people with cancer here.
Because blood transfusions carry risks and because the blood supply is limited, doctors try not to transfuse when possible. Here are some alternatives that might be used.
Bleeding in the mouth is generally caused by mouth sores, gum (periodontal) disease, or by a low platelet count (cells that help the blood to clot).
For many patients with MDS the main goal of treatment is to prevent the problems caused by blood cell counts.