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Why would a person with leukemia have an increased risk of infection?
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Reduced immune fx: Although leukemia patients have an increased total number of white cells, many of those cells are non-functional in fighting infection. The number of germ-fighting white cells is usually dramatically reduced.
Answered 3/22/2020
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