Systemic adjuvant therapies for oral malignant melanomas

Malignant melanoma is the most common oral tumor in dogs. It is locally invasive and highly metastatic. Current treatment recommendations are local control with curative-intent surgery or radiation therapy (or both) and systemic adjunctive therapy. Local control through wide excision with or without radiation therapy has been moderately successful, but better therapy is needed.
Source: Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery - Category: Veterinary Research Tags: Clinical Pathology Source Type: research