Small animal surgeon and surgical oncologist VCA West Coast Specialty and Emergency Animal Hospital Fountain Valley, California
This lecture covers techniques of incisional and excisional biopsy and focus on the indications for each type of biopsy, with examples of when biopsy before definitive treatment is helpful. Staging tests help to determine where neoplasia may be elsewhere in the body beyond the primary site. Timing and type of staging tests are discussed. The learning objective of this lecture is to help practitioners make rational decisions about timing and type of biopsy and staging tests that provide maximum diagnostic information and may have a direct impact on the optimal treatment pathway options and expected prognosis and for a pet with cancer.
This lecture will be available for on-demand viewing after October 18, 2021, pending RACE approval