Cancer in dogs and cats : medical and surgical management /
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Baltimore :
Williams & Wilkins,
[1998]
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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