Risk scoring methods continue to evolve with increased understanding of the factors that affect specific patient group outcomes in MDS. Diagnosis of MDS is currently based on morphology, but can be ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

What is a bone marrow test? A bone marrow test is a way of testing cells from your bone marrow. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones that makes blood cells. To find out whether there are ...

Multiple myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer that starts in your plasma cells. Your plasma cells are a type of white blood cell inside your bone marrow, the soft inner part of your bones. If you ...

Hetty Carraway, MD: We didn’t go through all the details of the cytogenetic testing, and I’m not sure we need to other than to say that there are specific types of chromosomal aberrations that put ...

Diagnosing chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) involves blood and bone marrow tests, like a bone marrow biopsy. A biopsy shows if you have cancer. It will also give details about the type and subtype you ...

A number of biological factors affect the outcome of autotransplantation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The foremost among these is the karyotype. 1,2 Treatment-related factors such as the amount of ...

Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...