Description
Part 4 in our brand new Oncology Series.
A variety of different tumors of histiocytic origin can be encountered in dogs and cats. These include histiocytoma, transmissible venereal tumor, systemic/cutaneous histiocytosis, and histiocytic sarcoma. This lecture will review all of these conditions, as well as more extensive discussion of etiology, diagnosis, staging, therapy and prognosis for localized and disseminated histiocytic sarcoma. Although less common than some other hematopoietic tumors, tumors of plasma cell origin (cutaneous plasmacytoma, solitary GI or bone plasmacytoma, multiple myeloma) and leukemias (lymphoid, myelogenous) are occasionally seen in dogs and cats. Therapy can be very successful for many plasma cell diseases and chronic leukemia, and this lecture will discuss diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to these diseases.