See how surgery plays an important role in pet cancer treatment.
Surgery can be used to cure cancer, or as part of a multi-modal treatment plan for your pet.
Surgery is used in myriad treatment plans for pet cancers, including diagnosis, cure, reduction and palliation.
FAQs
VCA veterinary surgical oncologist Arathi Vinayak, DVM, DACVS-SA ACVS, explains the training path of a veterinary surgical oncologist, including a 3-year surgical residency program, followed by a 1-year oncology fellowship.
VCA veterinary surgical oncologist Arathi Vinayak, DVM, DACVS-SA ACVS, explains how surgery is an extremely successful form of cancer treatment with a proven track record.
VCA veterinary radiation oncologist James Custis, DVM, MS, DACVR/RO, explains how radiation therapy can be used: as a single approach to treat some tumors; as part of a multi-modal treatment applied to locations where complete surgery is not feasible; or to incompletely excised cancer sites.
VCA veterinary medical oncologist Cecilia Lopez, DVM, DACVIM, explains that integrated oncology is the ability to treat cancer with mutliple methods, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. Multi-modal treatment means that more than one method is being used on the same cancer.
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