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Is leukemia like agranulocytosis?
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No: Leukemia is a cancer of the blood producing cells of the bone marrow. Agranulocytosis is the absence of granulocytes, also know as neutrophils. These are very different diseases.
Answered 10/4/2016
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Different: Agranulocytosis is abscence of granulocyte- or known as neutrophils/segmented white blood cell.There are different causes of agranulocytosis- like drug, congenital etc. Leukemia is a cancer of white blood cells. In leukemia, normal blood cells can be supressed by the abnormal leukemic cells- and patient can be presented with low /abscence of granulocytes, as well as anemia or decrease in platelets.
Answered 9/9/2015
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