Today's Daily Dose: Oncology

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“Using low-dose continuous chemotherapy (LDC) provides continuous suppression of the repair process of the blood vessel, thus robbing tumor cells of their nutritional support. Interestingly, even if a tumor cell is resistant to a particular chemotherapy agent at the maximally tolerated dose, the vascular endothelial cells still are sensitive when LDC is employed.”

-Mona Rosenberg, DVM, DACVIM (oncology)

From The use of metronomic chemotherapy in dogs