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My father has low blood red cell count and hemoglobin is low, is it dangerous, what does it mean?

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Yes: Anemia is always serious. Especially, a workup to rule out serious illnesses like cancer is in order.

Dr Lewis and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/11/2014

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