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How does a blood test show cancer in your blood?

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Dr. Liawaty Ho answered

Specializes in Hematology and Oncology

What blood test?: You can not see cancer on regular blood test. With a very sophisticated test like a flow cytometry for leukemia and lymphoma panel- sometimes you can detect population of abnormal leukemia cells or other blood cancer like lymphoma.

Answered 4/17/2013

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