What doees it mean in a cancer patient when the white blood cells are attacking the red?

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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia. The lymphocytes produce an antibody that attaches to the red blood cells causing their early destruction. This is usually treated with immune suppressive drugs like corticosteroids and if the anemia is severe enough transfusion may be required. Certain types of leukemia may have this as a complication.

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sounds like leukemia can be chronic or acute

All I can think of is autoimmune

It means that the body is confused into thinking the red blood cells are an invader, and are sending the white cells to destroy them. What happens is that it compromises the body's own ability to transport oxygen to all the cells in the various body parts.

Depends on the rest of the history. Were they given a stem cell transplant? In that case, the Graft-Vs-Host disorder comes to mind.

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