This chapter discusses the pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of oral tumors and nasal tumors. In dogs, the most common malignant oral tumors in order of frequency are oral malignant melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and fibrosarcoma. Surgical resection ...
Staging of oral cancer is important for establishing proper treatment and determining prognosis. Tumors are staged using the TNM system (Greeneet al., 2002), where T represents the size of theprimary tumor, N indicates the status of the regional lymph nodes, and M indicates the presence orabse...