Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Prognosis for dogs with small intestinal tumors after surgery
By Crawshaw, J et al.·Published in Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association·1998·Department of Veterinary Surgery, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Prognosis for dogs with nonlymphomatous, small intestinal tumors treated by surgical excision.
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Plain-English summary
A group of 39 dogs with small intestinal tumors that were not lymphomas underwent surgery to remove the tumors. On average, these dogs lived for about 10 months after surgery, with some surviving longer—about 40% were alive after one year and 33% after two years. Dogs that had signs of cancer spreading at the time of surgery had a much shorter survival time of only 3 months, while those without such signs lived around 15 months on average. Overall, the type of tumor (adenocarcinoma or leiomyosarcoma) did not affect survival times.
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Abstract
Long-term follow-up information was obtained for 39 dogs that had undergone surgical excision of nonlymphomatous, small intestinal tumors. For all dogs evaluated in this study, the median survival time was 10 months, and the one- and two-year survival rates were 40.5% and 33.1%, respectively. There was no difference in survival times between dogs with adenocarcinomas (n=23) and dogs with leiomyosarcomas (n=16). Survival times were significantly (p less than 0.0001) shorter for dogs with histological evidence of metastases at the time of surgery (median, 3.0 months) than for dogs with no histiological evidence of metastases (median, 15.0 months).
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