Practical Oncology for the  General Practitioner

Tuesday 15th June ~ 9.00am - 5.00pm

Course tutors Rob Harper & Tim Knott

A one day course covering cancer biology, cancer staging, treatment, common tumours and the future of Veterinary oncology. Rob Harper will be our main speaker for the day with a session on ocular on-cology in small animal and equine patients from the eye team.

Provisional Programme: to be confirmed

Topics covered will include

• Ethics & aims of cancer management
• Basic cancer biology
• The language/terminology of cancer management - what it means and why it is important.
• An overview of a typical workup of a cancer case from consultation onwards to include a discussion of treatment options both for practice and at referral institutions.
• How and where to search for further information and how to evaluate the worth of that information.
• Common difficult small animal cancers - Dogs: oral melanoma, osteosarcoma, splenic haemangiosarcoma, lymphoma, mast cell tumour - Cats: oral squamous cell carcinoma, lymphoma.
• Palliative care including "quality of life" assessment.
• Future treatments - what is being evaluated at the "cutting edge" and how likely is it to be relevant to general practice.
• Ophthalmic oncology - common companion animal cancers involving the eye.