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Will a flow cytometry test exclude lymphomas such as hodgekins and non hodgekins, plus what other cancers will it exclude? done at baylor college of

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Lymphomas: Flowcytometery test will exclude non-hodgkins lymphoma. However, it does not exclude hodgkins lymphoma. Flowcytometery is done to diagnose and classify blood/bone marrow and lymph node cancers (leukemia and lymphomas). Leukemias are of many type; some of them can not be diagnosed with this test such as myeloproliferative diseases (CML, ET, polycythemia vera etc) and MDS (myelodysplastsic syndrome

Answered 2/1/2020

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