| 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. |  | Chancellor Donald, M.D. James Cole, M.D. John Rainey, M.D. Joseph E. Brierre, M.D. |