In order to have a more productive dialogue with the veterinarian oncologist, as pet owners, we need to understand the terminology used by the experts. Listed below are some of those terms described in laypersons language. In order to perform a biopsy, a piece of tissue is removed and placed under a microscope. The term neoplasia is a synonym for cancer.
Every chemotherapy protocol has a different cycle.
Chemotherapeutic agents are administered in the same order and following the same schedule. The pathologist , upon evaluating the microscopic features of a tumor, assigns the tumor a grade. The grade will enable the oncologist to predict the aggressiveness of a tumor. This refers to the edges of the specimen removed by surgery. Two common sites of metastasis are the lungs or lymph nodes.