This could help repopulate blood cells in cancer patients who receive bone marrow irradiation ... differentiate into red and white blood cells, as well as platelets and other blood cells.

A 2019 article states that an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction causes the body to start destroying the donated red blood cells ... the introduction of the irradiation of blood products.

There was disease progression in six patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and two patients with metastatic melanoma during treatment. There was no change in disease state in several other ...

Chemotherapy can also affect the number of white blood cells. So having chemotherapy and radiotherapy together can make this worse. You have total body irradiation (TBI) before a stem cell or bone ...