Use of surgery and electron beam irradiation, with or without chemotherapy, for treatment of vaccine-associated sarcomas in cats: 78 Cases (1996-2000)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 219, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1582-1589

  Cohen, Michele ^a   Wright, James C ^a   Brawner Jr , William R ^a   Smith, Annette N ^a   Henderson, Ralph ^a   Behrend, Ellen N ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FEMALE; INJECTION; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; INJECTIONS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0035657158     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2001.219.1582     Document Type: Article

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