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Can you tell me what occurs to white blood cells when someone has cancer?
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Minimal: Cancer cells do not produce an increase in white cells seen with inflammation. There is a slight change in ability to turn on cytotoxic and antibody producing cells. Where bacterial infections can boost the WBC's, cancers have a minimal reaction considered to help in surveillance. The amt, of tumor protein for a response is about 1000ugm where tumors have about 25 ugm.
Answered 6/30/2014
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