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With my counts being low, warrant to need a bone marrow done, to rule out leukemia? wbc, rbc, plt are all low. the onethat was taken was inconclusive6th

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Very likely, yes: Unless the counts are low due to an obvious reason( such as use of recent chemotherapy or radiotherapy) low counts raise questions about the health of your bone marrow, so a bone marrow aspiration as well as a biopsy(both should be done at the same sitting), is essential to find out the cause of low blood counts.. Good luck.

Answered 9/28/2016

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A member asked:

With my counts being low, warrant to need a bone marrow done, to rule out leukemia? wbc, rbc, plt are all low. the onethat was taken was inconclusive6th

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Sewa Legha answered

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