During a surgical biopsy, a surgeon makes an incision in your skin to access the suspicious area of cells. Examples of surgical biopsy procedures include surgery to remove a breast lump for a possible breast cancer diagnosis and surgery to remove a lymph node for a possible lymphoma diagnosis. Surgical biopsy procedures can be used to remove part of an abnormal area of cells (incisional biopsy).
Blood cancer is a type of cancer or tumor. Blood cancer hurts the blood, bone marrow, lymph, and lymphatic system. Sometimes more than one body part is hurt. The cause is usually different from other types of cancer. The way to find out if a person has this cancer is also different. The treatment is usually drugs. People with blood cancers see a kind of doctor called a hematologist (blood doctor) or oncologist (cancer doctor).
Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is a rare and aggressive form of cancer that may develop on its own, or from an existing case of multiple myeloma.CL and the related disease, multiple myloma, are cancers of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies. When these abnormal plasma cells reproduce and cluster in the bones, they create lesions that can lead to fractures.