Veterinary Oncology

Electrochemotherapy in veterinary oncology.

Electropermeabilization is a method that uses electric field pulses to induce an electrically mediated reorganization of the plasma membrane of cells. Electrochemotherapy combines local or systemic administration of chemotherapeutic drugs such as bleomycin or cisplatin that have poor membrane permeability with electropermeabilization by direct application of electric pulses to the tumors. Precl...

TOP 10 Recent Advances in Veterinary Oncology

This discussion will review what I feel to be the top 10 clinically relevant advances in veterinary oncology over the last ~ 10 years. Topic #10 will be a “stinker topic” and will briefly summarize advances that have really NOT been advances. I will post the abstracts from these publications and then summarize them in the lecture. It is important to point out that major advances in surgical and...

Comparative oncology: Integrating human and veterinary medicine

Cancer constitutes the major health problem both in human and veterinary medicine. Comparative oncology as an integrative approach offers to learn more about naturally occurring cancers across different species. Canine models have many advantages as they experience spontaneous disease, have many genes similar to human genes, five to seven-fold accelerated ageing compared to humans, respond to t...

Southwest Veterinary Oncology, PLLC. FELINE MAMMARY GLAND TUMORS

Mammary cancer is the third most common cancer in the cat. The average age of cats presenting with mammary tumors is 10-12 years. Siamese cats appear to have twice the risk of developing mammary cancers than other breeds. Recent studies suggest that spayed female cats have a 40-60% lower risk of mammary cancer than intact females. There is a strong association with the use of synthetic progesti...

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