Neutrophils

[TheTopBanana]

Hello everyone, hope you all are well. My father is having new scans with the results coming in February, and as usual I am handling my anxiety with reading posts here about research (thank you!) googling research.

I found this interesting:

cancer.org/research/acs-res...

unmc.edu/pathology/faculty/...

[LearnAll]

First article you presented is very low quality and does a good job of scaring patients and families. Note that it mentions 5 year survival for metastatic PCa as 3% ..that is absolutely wrong. A study done a decade ago, said the 5 year survival rate of metastatic Pca is 30% and all articles for last 10 years keep repeating the figure from that old study. The purpose is to keep scaring people so they can keep pushing unnecessary, very expensive treatments. And loving daughters like you fall for this fear trap.Coming to neutrophil count ...This is a non specific numbers. There are dozens of minor conditions which can raise neutrophil count such as UTI, throat infection and so on.

Its meaningless to focus on neutrophils alone. If you really want to assess ..you need to calculate NLR (neutrphil to lymphocyte ratio) Divide absolute neutrophil count with absolute lymphocyte count and you get NLR. Up to 3.0, NLR is considered normal.

The other two ratio which matter are PLR (platelet to Lymphocyte ratio) and LMR (lymphocyte to monocyte ratio) Again, lookinhg just at neutrophil count is meaningless.