During a surgical biopsy, a surgeon makes an incision in your skin to access the suspicious area of cells. Examples of surgical biopsy procedures include surgery to remove a breast lump for a possible breast cancer diagnosis and surgery to remove a lymph node for a possible lymphoma diagnosis. Surgical biopsy procedures can be used to remove part of an abnormal area of cells (incisional biopsy).
Blood cancer is a type of cancer or tumor. Blood cancer hurts the blood, bone marrow, lymph, and lymphatic system. Sometimes more than one body part is hurt. The cause is usually different from other types of cancer. The way to find out if a person has this cancer is also different. The treatment is usually drugs. People with blood cancers see a kind of doctor called a hematologist (blood doctor) or oncologist (cancer doctor).
Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment. This means it can attack cells throughout the body. This is one reason chemotherapy is often used to treat blood-related cancers, like leukemia. In blood-related cancers, cancer cells are often spread throughout the body by the bloodstream.hemotherapy and other anti-cancer therapies \r\n \r\n Chemotherapy is a common treatment for blood cancers, which you may receive with other treatments or with a transplant.