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Would brain tumor/cancer show something abnormal in a cbc?

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Unlikely: Brain tumors do not affect your CBC unless the cancer is wide spread and actually arising from an area outside of the brain. Even then it can only tell if you have a healthy bone marrow (Bones) or not

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Answered 1/30/2016

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