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Hematology-oncology

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The diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases (hematology) and cancer (oncology) and research into them.

Hematology-oncology includes such diseases as iron deficiency anemia, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, the thalassemias, leukemias and lymphomas.

Abbreviated hem-onc

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