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<oncology, pharmacology> A side effect of many anticancer and antiviral drugs, including AZT.
Bone marrow suppression leads to a decrease in white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. Such reductions in turn result in anaemia, bacterial infections and spontaneous or excess bleeding.
(09 Oct 1997)
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