Cancer in dogs and cats : medical and surgical management /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morrison, Wallace B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, [1998]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The biology of cancer
  • The new language of oncology : terms used in molecular biology relating to cancer
  • Gene regulation, signal transduction, and cancer
  • Cancer-causing viruses
  • Environmental causes of naturally occurring cancer in dogs and cats
  • Host : tumor cell interaction as a determinant of tumor cell behavior
  • Chromosomal changes associated with cancer
  • Principles of cancer diagnosis
  • Clinical evaluation of cancer patients
  • Diagnostic cytology : common techniques for obtaining cytologic smears
  • Using cytology in the diagnosis of cancer
  • Myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders
  • Instruments and techniques for nonsurgical biopsy
  • Principles of the surgical biopsy of cancer
  • Understanding the biopsy report : what else to ask for
  • Using conventional radiography in cancer diagnosis and monitoring
  • Ultrasonography for cancer diagnosis and monitoring
  • Alternate imaging for the diagnosis of cancer
  • Treatment modalities for dogs and cats with cancer
  • Selecting the best cancer treatment
  • Principles of oncologic surgery
  • Surgery for oncologic emergencies
  • Aggressive cancer surgery and aftercare
  • Blood transfusionn, and management of pain, infection, and nutritional needs in the postoperative cancer patient
  • Chemotherapy
  • Cancer drug pharmacology and clinical experience
  • Providing chemotherapy safely
  • Principles of treating chemotherapy complications
  • Biologic principles of radiation therapy
  • Summary of results of cancer treatment with radiation therapy
  • Immunotherapy and biologic response modifiers
  • Photodynamic therapy
  • Mast cell tumors
  • Clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatment of specific cancers in dogs and cats
  • Tumors of the skin and subcutis
  • Cancers of the head and neck-- Cancers of the respiratory system
  • Nonpulmonary intrathoracic cancer
  • Nonlymphomatous cancers of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines
  • Primary cancers and cancer-like lesions of the liver, biliary epithelium, and exocrine pancreas
  • Cancers of the urinary tract
  • Cancers of the reproductive tract
  • Canine and feline mammary tumors
  • Cancer of endocrine origin
  • Skeletal neoplasms
  • Cancer affecting the nervous system
  • Lymphosarcoma
  • Plasma cell neoplasms
  • Blood vascular, lymphatic, and splenic cancer
  • Cancers of young dogs and cats
  • The leukemias
  • Ocular tumors of the dog and cat
  • Cancers of unknown primary origin
  • Paraneoplastic syndromes and the tumors that cause them
  • Tumors of uncertain origin