Diagnostic Process of Acute Leukaemia

How do doctors diagnose you as having Acute Leukaemia? In medicine diagnosis of a disease is done in three major steps. They are,

1.      History  

History is what the patient comes and complains to the doctor. Then the doctor gathers more information by asking questions from the patient. Most of the time a clinician can come to diagnosis only by the information he gather from the history. So, in history he will ask questions to see whether you have the symptoms of acute leukaemia that I have described in my previous post.

2.      Examination

Then he will examine you to find the signs of leukaemia. The things he will look for is described in my previous post.  

3.      Investigation

The investigation process involved in diagnosing acute leukaemia will be discussed in my next post.