Nicole Northrup, DVM, DACVIM

Goals of chemotherapy: tumor control, prolonged survival, maintain quality of life.

Oral tumors in cats present a challenge. These tumors are usually noticed only at very advanced stages.

Chemotherapy can cause adverse effects in veterinary cancer patients.

Malignant melanoma is the most common oral tumor in the dog.

Use of energy (photons) or energized particles (electrons, protons, neutrons) to kill cancer cells.

Mast cells are normal inflammatory cells that are produced in the bone marrow and mature in connective or mucosal tissues.

The eyes are often a site of primary or metastatic neoplasia.