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When Battling Cancer, What Do The Blood Routine Test Findings Imply?
My stepfather has stage4 bile duct cancer spread to pancreas, liver, stomach lining and the blood stream he had some routine blood work done which came back as urine blood 1+ and urine mucus trace could this mean the cancer as now spread to his bladder
Mon, 7 Apr 2014
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Possibly because of the advancement of the disease he may have reduced immunity and because of that he is catching the infections. Passing the blood and mucus suggests bladder infection. Doing routine blood test gives the clue if he is really suffering from infection or if the blood constituents like platelets have come down which also causes bleeding problem.
Dr. J Ticku
Possibly because of the advancement of the disease he may have reduced immunity and because of that he is catching the infections. Passing the blood and mucus suggests bladder infection. Doing routine blood test gives the clue if he is really suffering from infection or if the blood constituents like platelets have come down which also causes bleeding problem.
Dr. J Ticku
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