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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0896994
EAN num: 9780721605586
ISBN number: 0721605583
Label: Saunders
Manufacturer: Saunders
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 864
Printing Date: December 15, 2006
Publishing house: Saunders
Sale Popularity Level: 212080
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Focusing on cancer in dogs and cats, this extensively updated 4th edition provides comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in clinical oncology, including chemotherapy, surgical oncology, and diagnostic techniques. Ideal for students, practitioners, and those involved in academic research, this book's full-colour images and user-friendly format provide quick and easy acess to today's most important information on cancer in the small animal patient.
- Full-colour format throughout and full-colour illustrations make information more accessible and provide accurate representations of clinical appearance.
- Chapters are clustered into four major sections: The Biology and Pathogenesis of Cancer, Diagnostic Procedures for the Cancer Patient, Therapeutic Modalities for the Cancer Patient, and Specific Malignancies in the Small Animal Patient.
- The consistent format includes incidence and risk factors, pathology, natural behavior of tumors, history and clinical signs, diagnostic techniques and workup, treatment options, and prognosis for specific malignancies in the small animal cancer patient.
- Features cutting edge information on the complications of cancer, pain management, and the latest treatment modalities.
- The latest information on the etiology of cancer, including genetic, chemical, physical, and hormonal factors, as well as cancer-causing viruses.
- Coverage of molecular-targeted therapy of cancer, plus new and emerging therapeutic techniques.
- New information on molecular diagnostic procedures for the cancer patient.
- The latest diagnostic imaging techniques in clinical oncology.
- Discussions of compassion and supportive care, from chronic pain management and nutrition to end-of-life issues and grief support.
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The book is great... new full colour photos make reading about all these different type of neoplasias a little more bearable.
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I am currently finishing up an advanced clinical rotation in surgical and medical oncology at the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. I bought this book as a main resource, along with Fossum's surgery text, Slatter's, and Nelson/Couto's medical text. Withrow's book has been extremely helpful with the background information required to diagnose, treat, and predict the behavior of most tumors. I would recommend this book to anyone specializing in oncology, surgery, internal medicine, or even the general practicioner.
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If you want the low-down on small animal oncology - this is where to look! This text is the next-best thing to a consultation with a specialist.
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Small Animal Clinical Oncology is NOT aimed at "civilian" pet owners like me. I bought this book after getting a cancer diagnosis on my dog, desperate for more detailed information than what I've found so far in books for the general public. I hesitated at the price, but I'm now very glad I bought it. I strongly suggest having Taber's Medical Dictionary handy if you're not in the field, and many of the photos were very tough to look at. Each chapter is written by different authors, it's footnoted to the nth degree which makes it easier if you should want to find further info. The chapters are well laid out and offered lots of basic and not so basic info on different tumors and cancers, progression, treatments, theory, classifications, pathology, etc. The last chapter on Bond Centered Practice is very touching from where I stand, addressing the handling of us owners in a very comforting way.
This book has most anything pet owners could want to know from a conventional medicine standpoint if they're willing to wade through it. There's info about the not-so-conventional side too, I found that a bonus since I'm interested in both sides. I did get totally lost in a couple of the theory chapters, that's to be expected for the likes of me, but I managed most of it. While a tough read for for a those not in the field, I've really learned a lot from this book, it's the best I've found on the subject so far. I can't rate this 5 full stars since I am not in the target group it's written for. If there are any problems, inaccuracies, or unnoted controversies, I'd probably never know, but none are obvious to me anyway.
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