Internal neoplastic disease: is it always a death sentence?

Authors: Knottenbelt DC
Publication: Proceedings of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) Annual Conferences, Volume 2014 AVA Annual Conference, Perth, Issue Equine, May 2014
Publisher: Australian Veterinary Association

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Abstract: Horses with internal tumours are probably commoner than we think even though the overall prevalence of tumours is very low; slaughter house and University necropsy surveys suggest that the prevalence of internal tumours in horses is rare compared to both those in other species and to those of the skin of the horse.1,2 The effects of internal cancer are probably less in horses than in other species or at least are less obvious clinically in the early stages. There are however some very common internal tumours that have no material primary effect – the best example of that is the mesenteric lipoma; a very high proportion of old horses will have at least one or some of these very benign masses...

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