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Tests and Diagnosis

Once an oncologist has a suspicion of leukaemia after he has checked out the symptoms he is going to do a number of tests. These tests include these tests given below but are not restricted to them. First there is going to be a test on the bone marrow. Sometimes tissue samples are also taken for the confirmation of the diagnosis, as well as the development of the plan for treatment.

The tests are necessary to make sure that there is no leukaemia. In this test, the quantity as well as the type of the blood cells that are present in the blood sample is checked out. Other factors like blood chemistry are also tested out here. A full blood count is going to tell the doctor whether the patient is suffering from anaemia that means low count of red blood cells and thrombocytopenia, which means a low number of platelets.

The people who are suffering from ALL and AML have an extremely high count of white blood cells, but a very low count of red blood cells. These white blood cells are immature and useless cells known as blast cells.

If you are a man, your assay should be between 39.8 -- 52 .2. This means that you have a normal red blood count. The red blood count of an adult woman should be between 34.9 -46.9. Tests are also done on the variables of coagulation to see if there is any problem in the clotting of the blood. Another important test is the haemoglobin test. This test is seen to see the level of haemoglobin which should be 13.3 to 17.7 in normal adult males and 11.7 -15.7 in normal adult females.