External beam radiotherapy for the treatment of feline salivary gland carcinoma: six new cases and a review of the literature.
Laura BlackwoodAaron HarperJames ElliottIrina GramerPublished in: Journal of feline medicine and surgery (2018)
There is a paucity of information on the treatment of salivary gland tumours. In humans, as in cats, there is no optimised standard of care for malignant tumours. It is accepted that, for surgical candidates (even with large tumours), surgery and radiotherapy is superior to radiotherapy alone. However, the benefits of postoperative radiotherapy compared with surgery alone are only clear in patients with high-risk tumours (ie, those with large and invasive primary tumours, close or incomplete margins, high histopathological grade, histological evidence of neural or vascular invasion, or positive lymph nodes). This population is analogous to the population reported here, and likely to most cats presented in practice. Thus, radiation therapy may help improve locoregional control and survival in cats.
Keyphrases
- radiation therapy
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- squamous cell carcinoma
- rectal cancer
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- coronary artery disease
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