What tests are used to diagnose lymphoma?

What tests are used to diagnose lymphoma?

So after someone comes to a physician with symptoms as I've described, being: weight loss, night sweats and fevers, with or without itching- I want to describe that Hodgkin's Lymphoma patients sometimes classically present to a physician with itching of unknown ideology: meaning that they just that itching, their entire body itches without any reason. Especially the itching is exacerbated by warm or hot showers as well as having excessive itching after drinking alcohol. So the night sweats, weight loss and fevers (plus or minus the itching) would prompt further evaluation. If the patient happens to have lymph nodes in their neck or in their armpit then they'd be referred to a surgeon to remove that lymph node for pathologic analysis and determination of their diagnosis. If there wasn't a particular lymph node group that was able to be biopsied; we'd pursue a bone marrow biopsy: a bone marrow biopsy is a non-invasive sampling of the bone marrow present, usually in the hips and allows the clinicians and the pathologist to review the different types of bloods cells in the bone marrow to determine whether there are abnormalities there, or cancer there, or lymphoma there.