Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with kidney cancer treated by surgery and chemo stays cancer-free
By Seaman, Rebecca L & Patton, Clark SĀ·Published in Journal of the American Animal Hospital AssociationĀ·2003Ā·Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, United StatesĀ·View original on PubMed ā
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Original publication title: Treatment of renal nephroblastoma in an adult dog.
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Plain-English summary
An 8-year-old Labrador retriever was diagnosed with a kidney tumor and bone changes that can occur with certain cancers. The tumor was removed through surgery, and the dog also received chemotherapy with vincristine and doxorubicin. Remarkably, the dog has been free of disease for over 25 months, which is much longer than what has been reported in other cases. This suggests that the combination of surgery and chemotherapy can be effective for treating this type of tumor in dogs.
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Abstract
An 8-year-old Labrador retriever was diagnosed with a unilateral malignant nephroblastoma and hypertrophic osteopathy. The histopathologically malignant tumor was confined to the renal capsule, but the sarcomatous component was anaplastic, resulting in its classification as a Stage I tumor with unfavorable histopathology. The dog was treated with unilateral nephrectomy, vincristine, and doxorubicin. This dog has remained disease free for >25 months. Reported treatments of renal nephroblastoma in the dog have not described disease-free intervals of >8 months.
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