Sydney 4 September 2010, 10:18pm

Medical Oncology 2012

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Oncology is a rapidly growing area of veterinary medicine. Nearly half of all small animal veterinary patients will die either because of having had, or with, a neoplasia of some sort. The primary aim of this course is to provide a broad understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of cancer and to give an overview of the management of patients with cancer in your practice.

Tutor

The tutor for this program is Peter Bennett.

Key benefits

  • improve the ‘quality of life’ of cancer-bearing patients
  • gain confidence in discussing the diseases and therapies available
    for neoplastic diseases in companion animals with the patient’s owners
  • gain good general knowledge of the therapies available for cancer in companion animals, and their implementation
  • understand in detail the safe use of chemotherapy agents and the potential outcomes from their use
  • gain knowledge about complications that can arise from neoplastic diseases, their treatments, and how to deal with them

Modules

  1. Introduction to oncology and mechanisms of oncogenesis and metastasis
  2. Introduction to chemotherapeutics and chemotherapy drugs
  3. The other therapies surgery, radiation, hyperthermia and new alternatives
  4. Paraneoplastic syndromes
  5. Canine lymphosarcoma
  6. Feline lymphosarcoma
  7. Carcinomas
  8. Sarcomas
  9. Round cell tumours
  10. The complete approach to the patient with cancer

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