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High Platelets

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prayimok23
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Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get some answers here since my doctor hasn't been much help yet. My primary care doctor noticed about a year ago that my platelets were elevated at about 469 or so, she did not make a big deal of it but jokingly asked if i had a blood disease. I told her not that i knew of and it wasn't mentioned again. This year my platelets were elevated to about 489. my doctor recommended I go and see a hematologist because it had been elevated for over a year. She also did not seem concerned, I freaked myself out and ended up going to the hospital where they tested my blood and my platelet count was 500. When I went to the hematologist my playlist count was slightly lower at 496. I do not have low iron and I do not have anemia, does this mean that I have cancer ?

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