What is hematology?

Disorders of blood: The study of blood related disorders include such things as bleeding disorders, clotting disorders, low blood counts (anemia, low platelets, low neutrophils), high blood counts, abnormal hemoglobin, and much more.

Benign and malignant: I divide hematology into benign and malignant heme. Benign hematology specialists diagnose and treat clotting problems, or red cell, hemoglobin, iron, white cell, or platelet problems (either too high or too low). Malignant hematology includes diseases like leukemia, mds, lymphoma, and myeloma. Stem cell transplant is a sub-specialty of malignant hematology. More info: http://bit.Ly/mymtva.

See below: Hematology is the study of the blood, blood-forming organs and diseases of the blood including benign and malignant conditions as well as abnormalities of the clotting system. Hematologist are specially trained to examine the blood and bone marrow and treat both benign conditions such as anemia (reduced red blood cells) and malignant conditions such as leukemia (abnormal white cell count).

Blood: The study of blood and blood related issues like clotting. Anemias of various kinds, hemophilia, leukemia, bleeding disorders. It is a wide medical category and often doctors do both hematology and cancer as a single specialty.