Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Alternate Names : Cancer - Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, Lymphoma - Hodgkin's
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Hodgkin's Lymphoma Diagnosis & Tests
The disease may be diagnosed after:
A staging evaluation (tumor staging) to determine extent of disease includes:
- A physical examination
- CT scans of the chest, abdomen and pelvis
- A bone marrow biopsy
- Blood chemistry tests
- A PET scan (a nuclear medicine test that looks for tumor cells throughout the body)
- Abdominal surgery to biopsy the liver and take out the spleen to see if it is affected by the lymphoma. However, because the other tests are now so good at detecting the spread of Hodgkin's lymphoma, this surgery is usually unnecessary.
This disease may change the results of the following tests:
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