Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD The red cell distribution width (RDW) blood test measures differences in the volume and size of your red blood cells. Red blood cells help carry oxygen from ...

Complications and Risk Factors Associated With a High WBC Count. Blood cancers and autoimmune diseases that cause ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a blood cancer that begins in the marrow of your bones, the soft center where new blood cells grow. It causes your marrow to make too many red blood cells so your blood ...

The Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center held a lecture on how certain white blood cells in the immune ...

A complete blood count measures your red and white blood cells and platelets. While this blood test gives doctors a wide range of important medical information, it can’t detect breast cancer.

Through several intermediate stages, these stem cells develop into oxygen-transporting erythrocytes, blood-clotting platelets, and the large group of white blood cells which orchestrate the immune ...