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Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:00 - 7:00PM. Dinner will be provided.
Coborn Cancer Center
1300 West St. Germain Street
St. Cloud, MN 56301
For more information, contact Janelle Thoreson and Siri Spanier, hemeoncjtss@gmail.com
We are pleased to let patients and families know about the LLS support group opportunities around the country. These support groups are facilitated by LLS, not AAMDSIF. This group meets on the second Thursday of every month from 5:30 to 7:00pm. If you would like to join the Robbinsdale (MN) blood cancer support group or want more information, please contact Jennifer Kreitz, (763) 581-2934 or jennifer.kreitz@NorthMemorial.com
North Memorial Outpatient
3435 West Broadway
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
We are pleased to let patients and families know about the LLS support group opportunities around the country. These support groups are facilitated by LLS, not AAMDSIF. This group meets the second Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 8:00pm. If you would like to join the Duluth (MN) blood cancer support group or want more information, please contact Penny Derauf at (218) 786-3846 or penny.derauf@essentiahealth.org
St. Mary's Medical Center
407 East 3rd Street
Duluth, MN 55805
We are pleased to let patients and families know about the LLS support group opportunities around the country. These support groups are facilitated by LLS, not AAMDSIF. This group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you would like to join the Long Island (NY) blood cancer support group or want more information, please contact LLS, (631) 370-7532.
We are pleased to let patients and families know about the LLS support group opportunities around the country. These support groups are facilitated by LLS, not AAMDSIF. This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm (no meetings are held June, July, or August). If you would like to join the Las Vegas (NV) blood cancer support group or want more information, please contact Myra Davis-Alston, RN, 702-636-3000 or myradalston@cox.net.
We are pleased to let patients and families know about the LLS support group opportunities around the country. These support groups are facilitated by LLS, not AAMDSIF. This group meets on the last Tuesday of every month from 5:45 to 7:00pm. If you would like to join the Omaha (NE) blood cancer support group, registration is required. Use this link to register, https://www.llsform.org/ho0999SER/OMH1FSG/index.html
One important test your doctor will ask you to get is a complete blood count, or CBC for short. The CBC measures the number of each blood cell type in your blood sample. Below are the types of information the CBC measures.
When you have a low blood count, this means your bone marrow is not making enough of one type of blood cells. Doctors call a low blood count cytopenia. You can have one or more low blood counts.
When the bone marrow fails to keep up with the body's needs and doesn't produce enough red cells, white cells or platelets, or when those blood cells that are produced are damaged or defective, you have
