Correct classification, as well as identification of additional factors that may influence prognosis or response to chemotherapy, is essential to allow optimal treatment by the hematologist/oncologist.
Diagnosis and treatment of serious thrombocytopenia is usually directed by a hematologist.
The medical team includes a pediatric hematologist (doctors who specialize in diseases of the blood), nurse practitioners, child psychologists, and licensed social workers.
This can result in the hospitalization of a patient whose treatment would otherwise be carried out entirely at the hematologist's office.
The team that follows the patient through the steps of this cancer may include a pediatric surgeon, oncologist, hematologist, specialty nurse, and rehabilitation specialists.
What proceeded over the next 6 weeks were multiple blood tests, consultations with hematologists, liver specialists, genetic disease specialists.
Because the guidelines were issued by hematologists, their acceptance was likely (15), but acceptance does not mean use.
The study focuses on the work of hematologists and their work in relation to other types of clinical practice.
