Hematology is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases. Hematology includes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases.
Hematologists manage blood diseases using the following tools:
- Addition and removal of blood components as needed
- Biological therapy for benign and malignant blood disorders
- Chemotherapy
- Growth factor drugs
- Immunosuppressive drugs
- Stem cell and bone marrow transplantation
Specialists at The Vancouver Clinic are experienced at treating common and rare blood diseases including:
- Anemia
- Bleeding and clotting disorders
- Enlarged lymph nodes or spleen
- Hematologic malignancies
- Hypercoagulable states and platelet disorders
- Immune cytopenias
- Leukemias
- Lymphproliferative disorders
- Monoclonal gammopathies of undetermined significance
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia
- Myeloma
- Myeloproliferative disorders
- Porphyria
- Primary amyloidosis
- Thrombocytopenia