In message <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian Midgley
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>On Wednesday 21 July 2004 23:05, Iain Hotchkies wrote:
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>> ie if a patient has a FBC which reveals increased lymphocytes then the lab
>> are doing assays on IgM, IgG and IgA.
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>Isn't the idea that a malignant clone of a lymphocyte will produce a single
>immunoglobulin, whereas an increase in functioning lymphocytes working as
>designed will be more likely to give a collection of lines in the Ig{A|G|M} ?
>
>So aimed at early lymphoma detection?
If this is an evidence based, beneficial and desirable extension of a
request for an FBC (for whatever reason) could someone give me a
resource?
Mary H
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