In vitro response of lymphocytes of normal and ovine squamous cell carcinoma-bearing sheep to phytomitogens and tumour extracts

Veterinary oncology: A survey

“…@ 1984 by John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 0022-3417184/020101-27 $02. 70 Further, while surgery is still the prime method of treatment available, other methods are being increasingly explored and applied, to the affected animal's advantage. So we find on the diagnostic side an increasing use of histochemical, electron microscopic and biological methods in the pathological study of animal tumours, and on the therapeutic side an increasing exploration of the application of radiotherapy, cryosurgery , drug therapy, immunotherapy and interstitial photoradiation Indeed, veterinary oncology, an 'emerging speciality',12 may now be considered to have come of age as a discipline, as exemplified by the recent appearance of a textbook13 from a department of veterinary clinical oncology, which supplements a first-class textbook on the pathology of animal tumours.14 Veterinarians in the United States have been pioneers in this developing subject, particularly in the vigorous pursuit on a re ional or national scale of epidemiological ~tudies!~-'' The computerized returns of the VMDP (Veterinary Medical Data Program-Priester and Mantel2") from a number of veterinary schools in North America will often be referred to later.…”