Blood
Two blood conditions linked to higher blood cancer risk
Ten-year blood cancer incidence reached 18.5% with mutations, low blood counts and elevated monocytes—immune cells—versus 5.3% with mutations and low counts without…Ten-year blood cancer incidence reached 18.5% with mutations, low blood counts and elevated monocytes—immune cells—versus 5.3% with mutations and low counts without elevated monocytes.
Cohort · 431,531 peopleBiomarkers
Who was studied431,531 UK Biobank participants, against people with CCUS without monocytosis
What changed10-year blood cancer risk was higher with CMUS-ABS (9.1%) and CCMUS (18.5%) than with CCUS without monocytosis (5.3%)
The catchWithout bone marrow biopsies, some CMUS/CCMUS cases may have been undiagnosed leukemia