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28 Jul 2020

Higher end of normal blood platelet count could indicate high risk of cancer

Exeter researchers have previously found that cancer risk is significantly raised by having an abnormally high blood platelet count (more than 400 x 109/l,) a condition known as thrombocytosis They found that the number of these patients diagnosed with cancer a year later was significantly higher if the patients had even slightly raised platelet levels Of 68,181 male patients with levels of blood platelet on the higher end of normal, 1,869 cases of cancer were diagnosed within one year

24 May 2017

Do you have high blood platelet levels? You could be at cancer risk!

The study analysed the data of 40,000 patients and found that more than 11 per cent of men and six per cent of women over the age of 40 with thrombocytosis went on to be diagnosed with cancer within a year.

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