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Which doctor treats non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Oncologist or Hematologist?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Jun 15 10:48am | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
@babu123
Here in the United States a hematologist who specializes in blood cancer and is trained in that area would be a hematologist/oncologist. If you have a blood cancer or a precursor to a blood cancer, then that would be your guy or gal.
You need physician guidance to know what your next steps should be. Your physician should answer all of your questions and you have some very good questions.
As a patient forum, you will find that there are people who have similar lab results, but we are each unique in presentation, symptoms, and treatment.
Do you have the opportunity to consult with your physician and ask these pertinent questions?
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Let me tell you a bit about the past — I had a little swelling on my face near the left ear for the past two years, there was no pain, but from last month it started swelling under the throat, so I went to the ENT specialist. Before the operation, the ENT surgeon said that it was a lymph node tumor. After the operation, I found out that it was not a tumor, but lymphoma. Soft tissue, left parotid samples were sent to 2 laboratories for biopsy and the reports were different, 2 samples were immunohistrochemstry and the reports were also different, one showed B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the other one showed follicular lymphoma, I have added two reports earlier. Last week I went to the hematologist, he said that after analyzing my physical symptoms, he thought it could not be B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, so he asked to send the sample to a neighboring country for review and advised me to take PET scan and treatment until the report comes. But I am afraid that I will get the right treatment?