Osteosarcoma in Companion Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 1509
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor found in dogs. Indeed, while much less common in cats, it still accounts for around 70% of cancerous bone tumors in felines.
The present standard of care includes surgery and adjuvant medical therapy and offers a survival time of around one year, with metastatic disease being the principal cause of death in dogs. Metastatic spread in cats is rarer than in dogs. As such, surgical intervention, when it is possible, can allow feline osteosarcoma patients to live relatively normally after surgical treatment.
Despite the significant improvements in canine veterinary oncology regarding tumor prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment made over recent decades, unfortunately for dogs affected by osteosarcoma, these advances have not changed the therapeutic and prognostic landscape as considerably as in other canine cancers.
Herein, we invite scholars to submit original research and review papers that discuss novel and innovative approaches to the diagnosis, staging, treatment, and comparative aspects of osteosarcoma in companion animals to this Special Issue, which aims to highlight potential areas of interest for future research questions.
Prof. Dr. Joaquim Henriques
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- osteosarcoma
- bone tumor
- companion animal
- dog
- canine
- cat
- feline
- sarcoma
