A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...

Actor Cha Hyun-seung, a former dancer who is fighting leukemia, expressed his expectations for a full recovery after completing a bone marrow examination.On Cha Hyunseung's YouTube channel on the 21st ...

Prognostic value of post treatment PET scan in small cell lung cancer. Effect of friend leukemia virus integration 1 on tumorigenesis of small cell lung cancer cells and activation of the miR-17-92 ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD You may need an MPV test if you show symptoms that suggest an issue with your platelet ...

—A small study of patients taking thrombopoietin receptor agonists detected correlations between absolute immature platelet fraction levels and bone marrow morphology. Reviewed by Julia M. Cunningham, ...

Ryan Jacoby's parents are pleading for help from the public. A 7-year-old mixed-raced boy who's fighting his second battle with an aggressive form of cancer is in need of a stem cell donor who shares ...

An unusual white blood cell count can be a sign of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a type of blood cancer. CML can affect the balance of white blood cells in the blood and cause them to function ...