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What values are you looking at?
Typically, the important value(s) in regards to red cell count (anemia) is hematocrit (Hct) and/or hemoglobin (Hg). I don't really know what the RBC count is measuring and what its relevancy is.
It interested me during treatment not so much that some people took a harder hit than others as far as blood cell production, but that there seemed to be little correlation between WBC's being affected vs. RBC's. For example, some of us whose WBC's tanked regularly had no problem with low RBC's, while others were severely anemic without ever needing neupogen for WBC's. And then there are the platelets also. Wouldn't you think the they'd all go together (up and/or down together)?
Do we have a laboratory scientist in the audience?
Debbie Laxague
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