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Dr. Roach: Understanding the part that the spleen plays in leukemia

stltoday.com · 8h · first report

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm 80. Over the past 26 years, I've had low blood platelet counts. (In 1998, one reading was 168,000, and in 2026, the reading was 117,000.) I have an enlarged spleen (16.1 centimeters), and I understand that…

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