Survival of dogs with splenic hemangiosarcoma treated by splenectomy with or without chemotherapy

Splenic hemangiosarcoma, a highly metastatic neoplasm arising from vascular endothelium, is one of the most common and rapidly fatal cancers in dogs. The tumor often ruptures, resulting in clinical signs referable to acute hemoabdomen, and many dogs have macroscopic metastatic disease in the liver and other sites at the time of initial evaluation. The prognostic factor that has been found to be most closely associated with survival time in dogs with splenic hemangiosarcoma is clinical stage. The influence of clinical stage on survival time has not been completely characterized, in part because of variability in staging schemes.
Source: Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery - Category: Veterinary Research Tags: Surgery (Soft Tissue) Source Type: research