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September 4, 2024CancersOpen Access

Improving the Clinical Utility of Platelet Count for Cancer Detection in Primary Care: A Cohort Study in England, Canada, and Australia

Luke Mounce Raff Calitri William Hamilton Meena Rafiq Jon Emery Vasily Giannakeas Joanne Kotsopoulos Sarah Bailey

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Abstract

The platelet count, a component of the full blood count, has been identified as a useful diagnostic marker for cancer in primary care. The reference range for the platelet count is 150 to 400 or 450 × 10

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Mounce et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e59566b6db6435875308a3 https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16173074

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