Title: Lung Cancer and High White Blood Cell Count: Your FAQs
Headings: Your FAQs, Answered: Lung Cancer and White Blood Cell Count
Your FAQs, Answered: Lung Cancer and White Blood Cell Count
Does cancer cause elevated white blood cell count?
Can cancer cause low white blood cell count?
Does lung cancer show up in bloodwork?
What’s dangerous about white blood cell count?
Does immunotherapy raise white blood cell count?
The takeaway

Content: What’s dangerous about white blood cell count? WBCs are an important part of your immune system. They help you fight infection and are most effective when their numbers fall within a certain range. A WBC count that’s too low means that you’re at risk for infection. Your doctor will monitor your WBC during treatment to make sure that it doesn’t get too low. Your WBC is so important that if treatment causes it to drop too far, your doctor will temporarily stop the treatment. Once your WBC returns to safe levels, cancer treatment can resume. Tell your doctor right away if you experience any signs of low WBC count, which include: chills
fever
sweating
Self-care is always important, but even more so if you have a low WBC count. Eat a nutritious diet, get plenty of rest, and avoid germs and injury as much as possible.