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Can Platelets Count Be A Symptom Of Blood Cancer?

hello, my father is suffering from ITP, he is also a patient of diabetes and taking insulin since two years. He is in hospital now but after giving steroids and IViG there is no improvement in platelets counts? some says it is the symptoms of blood cancer,is it true?
Tue, 9 Dec 2014
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It is rarely a symptom of blood cancer and had your father been suffering from blood cancer it would have shown in other tests. A small % of ITP patients do not respond to steroids and IViG. These patients need to undergo a surgery for removal of their spleen (splenectomy). That cures them forever of their condition and corrects the platelet counts.
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Can Platelets Count Be A Symptom Of Blood Cancer?

It is rarely a symptom of blood cancer and had your father been suffering from blood cancer it would have shown in other tests. A small % of ITP patients do not respond to steroids and IViG. These patients need to undergo a surgery for removal of their spleen (splenectomy). That cures them forever of their condition and corrects the platelet counts.