Follicular lymphoma diagnosis and staging
You’ll have tests to confirm your diagnosis and work out the stage and grade of the follicular lymphoma. Tests also help your doctor decide which treatment to recommend, and let them monitor how well your treatment is working.
Tests to diagnose and monitor follicular lymphoma
Find out more about the kind of tests and scans you'll need to confirm your diagnosis, and what to expect from them. You may have the same tests and scans during treatment as well.
Staging and grading follicular lymphoma
When doctors stage follicular lymphoma, they're looking at how much of your body is affected by the disease. Grading is another way of measuring how advanced the lymphoma is. Find out what your stage and grade means, and why it's helpful to know.
This information about follicular lymphoma is accredited with the PIF TICK, the UK's only quality mark for trusted health information.
Last full review April 2025. Next full review due April 2028. We may make factual updates to the information between reviews.
We would like to thank Consultant Haematologists Dr Pam McKay and Dr Jin-Sup Shin for checking the clinical accuracy of this information, and Clinical Nurse Specialist Samantha Darby for her guidance and support. Thank you also to Sarah, Sue, Malcolm, Allison, Jacqueline and Russell for supporting this project and sharing their experience of living with follicular lymphoma.