Haematology

Haematology is a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and investigation of disorders of the haematopoietic, haemostatic, and lymphatic systems and disorders of the interaction between blood and blood vessel wall.

Individuals with malignant and non-malignant haematological condition.  Malignant condition includes leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myeloproliferative neoplasm. Non-malignant condition includes anaemia, venous-thromboembolism, haemoglobinopathies eg. Thalassaemia and bleeding disorder.  

Treatment will depends on the underlying disease.  Among them will include chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, intravenous iron infusion, iron chelation, blood transfusion and haematopoietic stem cell transplant.