Facilities & Treatments

• Mouth & Throat Cancer
• Lung cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Stomach & Colon Cancer
• Liver & Pancreas Cancer
• Kidney Cancer & Prostate Cancer
• Cervical Cancer Ovary Cancer
• Uterus Cancer

Blood cancers, or hematologic cancers, affect the production and function of blood cells. Most of these cancers start in the bone marrow where blood is produced.

Types of blood cancers

Common types of blood cancer include :

• Leukemia : Cancer that originates in blood-forming tissue.
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma : Cancer that develops in the lymphatic system from cells called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections.
• Hodgkin lymphoma : Cancer that develops in the lymphatic system from cells called lymphocytes. Hodgkin lymphoma is marked by the presence of an abnormal lymphocyte called the Reed-Sternberg cell (or B lymphocyte).
• Multiple myeloma : Cancer that begins in the blood’s plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that is made in the bone marrow

A bone marrow biopsy can take about 60 minutes. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones. It’s home to blood vessels and stem cells that help produce :

• Red and white blood cells
• Platelets
• Fat
• Cartilage
• Bone.

There are two types of marrow: red and yellow. Red marrow is mainly found in your flat bones such as your hip and vertebrae. As you age, more of your marrow becomes yellow due to an increase in fat cells. Your doctor will extract red marrow, usually from the back of your hip bone. And the sample will be used to check for any blood cell abnormalities.

The pathology lab that receives your marrow will check to see if your bone marrow is making healthy blood cells. If not, the results will show the cause, which may be an infection, bone marrow disease, or cancer.

This chemotherapy technique delivers chemotherapy drugs directly into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord to target cancer cells that have spread there. Intrathecal chemotherapy is delivered through a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) or a device placed under the scalp.

Immunotherapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies, while immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are classified as suppression immunotherapies