Medical Oncology 2010

with Peter Bennett

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.

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.

Tutor

Dr Peter Bennett
BVSc FACVSc DipACVIM

Dr Peter Bennett graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1981 and spent some years in small animal practice in Melbourne and the United Kingdom. He then trained in small animal internal medicine at Massey University, Universities of Tennessee and Georgia, and the University of Melbourne. He obtained his fellowship in canine medicine from the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists and diplomate status in small animal internal medicine from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Peter returned to the United States where he was a clinical instructor in oncology at Purdue University for three years. In 2001 he obtained diplomate status in oncology from the American College.

Please contact the course coordinator.