Cancer specialists have long known that anemia, caused by a lack of healthy red blood cells, can arise when cancer metastasizes to the bone, but it’s been unclear why. A research team led by Princeton ...

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Iron is a crucial nutrient. Most of the iron in the body is contained in red blood cells, as part of hemoglobin, which is the molecule that ferries oxygen in the blood. There are two proteins that can ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of blood cancers that affect the bone marrow and can result in a low levels of blood cells. When MDS affects red blood cells, it can lead to anemia in some ...

What Is a RDW Blood Test? An RDW blood test – also known as a red blood cell distribution width blood test – is a measure of the difference in your red blood cells’ size and volume. RDW is one part of ...