Kelly Chaffin

author keywords: canine; mast cell tumor; megavoltage radiation

MeSH headings : Animals; Combined Modality Therapy; Disease-Free Survival; Dog Diseases / mortality; Dog Diseases / pathology; Dog Diseases / radiotherapy; Dog Diseases / surgery; Dogs; Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Female; Forelimb; Hindlimb; Lymphatic Metastasis / radiotherapy; Male; Mast-Cell Sarcoma / mortality; Mast-Cell Sarcoma / radiotherapy; Mast-Cell Sarcoma / secondary; Mast-Cell Sarcoma / surgery; Mast-Cell Sarcoma / veterinary; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / pathology; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / veterinary; North Carolina; Records / veterinary; Severity of Illness Index; Skin Neoplasms / mortality; Skin Neoplasms / pathology; Skin Neoplasms / radiotherapy; Skin Neoplasms / surgery; Skin Neoplasms / veterinary; Treatment Outcome

topics (OpenAlex): Veterinary Oncology Research; Infectious Diseases and Mycology; Microbial infections and disease research

TL;DR: The disease-free survival in dogs with stage 2 mast cell tumor suggests that the combination of surgery, irradiation, and prednisone for the primary tumor along with irradiation of the positive lymph node is effective. (via Semantic Scholar)