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equine oncology Flashcards

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What is the most common neoplasia of the horse

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Sarcoids
Up to 2% prevalence

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What is the cause of sarcoids and what cells are neoplastic

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Bovine papillomavirus 1 and 2 are involved
= neoplastic proliferation of fibroblasts

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What are the 6 types of sarcoids

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Occult
Verrucose
Neodular
Fibroblastic
Mixes
Malevolent

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What do occult sarcoids look like

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Just a hairless raise area; = first early lesions and easy to miss

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What do verrucose sarcoids look like

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Warty, crusty dry lesions
Start discretely but can spread

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What area are nodular sarcoids especially infiltrative

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Periocular region

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What do fibroblastic sarcoids look like

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Ulcerated skin mass, often discrete and simple to treat

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What are malevolent sarcoids

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Rare form that spreads quickly along lymph vessels and are poorly defines

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What are some predilection sites for sarcoids

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Anywhere with less hair i.e periocular, axillary, inguinal, sheath
+ sites of previous wounds

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what is the correlation between histopath of sarcoids and their clinical appearance; what about prognosis

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No correlation
Makes biopsy harder to justify when there is a high sensitivity/specificity of presumptive visual diagnosis

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What are the treatment options for sarcoids (in success order)

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Radiotherapy is best
Laser surgical resection = good first line treatment for most lesions since more accessible

Electrochemotherapy
Intralesional treatments
Topical treatments; very variable success

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What is plesiotherapy

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= radiotherapy using strontium90 beta paricles; short penetration so good for small superficial lesions

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What is brachytherapy

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Radiotherapy using iridium gamma therapy
Has good penetration so can be used for any lesion
= gold standard for periocular lesions

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What is teletherapy

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Using linear accelerator to create beta or gamma beams
Needs GA so rarely done

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What is the gold standard treatment for periocular sarcoids

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Iridium brachytherapy

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What are some complications that can occur with radiotherapy

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White hair formation, alopecia
Can get scar tissue formation

May see transient uveitic with brachytheraphy near eye

Osteoradionecrosis, non-healing wounds, damage to tooth roots rare

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How does laser surgical resection

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Cut out region with laser and leave open wounds to granulte by second intention

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What is the success of laser surgical resection

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High; ~80% per lesion
So is a practical, effective and accessible first line treatment for many

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Complications of laser surgical resection

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Non-healing wound
Recurrence + aggressive transformation

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What is electrochemotherapy

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= where chemotherapeutic (e/g cisplatin) agents are injected into the lesion and then electrodes are used to enhance the penetration

Can be used in conjunction with other treatments

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What are some considerations and complications of electrochemotherapy

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Needs a GA for the horse
Health and safety concerns

Can lead to necrosis and wide slough, pain and oedema, non-healing wound

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What must we remember when considering intralesional therapy for sarcoids

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Need a lesion to inject into
Cannot do on verrucose or occult sarcoids since these are flat; will get very large slough and risk of leakage of drug

i.e for nodular and fibroblastic

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What are some agents for intralesional therapy

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Cisplatin
Mitomycin C (DNA damaging chemo)
Tigilanol tiglate
Immunocidin

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How does Tigalanol tiglate (Stelfonta) work (intralesional therapy)

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Causes haemorrhagic necrosis of the tumour

Risk = very large area of sloughing inc down to bone

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How does immunocidin work (intralesional therapy for sarcoids)+ risks

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Contains mycobacterium wall fraction
Immune modifying

Risks = swellin, pain, abscessation

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How does 5-fluorouracil work and which lesions is it good for

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DNA damaging chemo cream

Good for verrucose and occult lesions (flat)
2/3 success
Can get sore and cruty, skin scald may happen

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What is AW-5 liverpoor cream

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Secret formula chemo agent

28
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What complications can occur with AW-5 cream

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Wide local slough, severe pain, oedema

29
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What is imiquimod and which sarcoid lesions is it good for

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Immune-modifying agent
Good for occult lesions i.e superficial

Treat 3 x per week until lesion goes away
Must clean lesion each time

30
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How does bleomycin work and which sarciods is it good for

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DNA damaging chemo cream (but less risky than other chemos if gets into eye etc)
Only for occult lesions

31
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What is tazarotene and what use might it have in dealing with sarcoids

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Retinoid cream
Can be used to reduce the crust on verrucose lesions before applying 5-FU crean

Some effect alone

32
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What is the best first line treatment for most sarcoids

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laser surgical resection

33
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Where do we typically see skin squamous cell carcinomas

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Non-pigmented skin; third eyelid, limbus, cornea
all related to solar exposure

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What does a typical SCC look like

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Rapidly proliferating cauliflower lesions
But can look much less obvious

35
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What should we suspect a squamous cell carcinoma in a horse

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Any unusual ocular or periocular presentation
Corneal and conjunctival infiltrates may be very artypical

Biopsy a good idea

36
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What is the most common squamous cell carcinoma in the horse

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3rd eyelid

37
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Are genetics involved in SCCs

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Yes one of the syndromes is genetic

38
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What is the cause of genital SCC

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Virally-mediated; equine papilloma virus 2
Classic cauliflower lesiosn

39
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What are pale white lesions near a genital SCC

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early SCC plaques i.e precancerous change

40
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Where do we see gastric SCCs and what is the prognosis

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= rare type of SCC: typically seen at pylorus
OFten diagnosed late and already metastasised so poor prognosis

41
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What do sinus SCCs present like

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Primary sinusitis so often just put on antibiotics and get to a late stage before proper diagnosis
Eventually erode through bone and cause facial deformation

42
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How do we treat squamous cell carcinomas

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Wide surgical excisino = treatment of chocie
Radiotherapy can be a good adjunctive since SCCs are very sensitive

May do topical/intralesional treatments

43
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What is the prognosis for SCCs like after treatment

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about 1/3 of eye lesions recur
10-30% of penile ones do

Can recur years later

44
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What radiotherapy would we use for squamous cell carcinomas

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Strontium90 plesiotherapy

45
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What prophylactic drugs do we put a horse on before giving tigilanol tiglate

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Place subpalpebral lavage and use prophylactic topical NSAIDs and atropine and systemic NSAIDs
Due to risk of uveitis

46
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How does 5-FU work

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structural analogue of thymine so inhibits DNA formatino by blocking thymidylate synthetase
Taken up more by tumour cells

47
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Why might we use piroxicam in equine SCCs

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BEcause COX-2 is overexpressed and this is an inhibitor
No clear evidence; could be a good adjunctive

48
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Why should we always stage SCCs

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Because many have already metastasised at first presentation (~10%); so should tell owner care will be palliative

49
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Characteristics of melanoma in the horse and predilection sites

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Usually benign
Predilection sites = perianal, tail, sheath, parotid salivary glands

50
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Which horses do we see melanomas in

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Mostly grey horses; almost all have one in middle to old age

51
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How do melanomas change over horse lifetime

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Grow and multiply
Can become necrotic, ulcerated and lead to seconday issues e.g maggots in sheath, rectal impaction

Benign but may eventually metastasise

52
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What are the treatment options for melanoma

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Surgical excision is treatment of choice if possible
Laser resection also good

There is oncept melanoma vaccine

53
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How does oncept melanoma vaccine work

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Xenogenic human DNA vaccine against tyrosinase
Can stabilise melanoma by preventing further growth or new lesions
But won’t cause regression

54
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How common is lymphoma in horses and what are the forms

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Rare - but most common of the haematopoietic neoplasms

Forms = multicentric, alimentary, mediastinal, cutaneous, solitary

55
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How do we treat solitary lymphoma

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Wide local excision usually curative

56
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Characteristics of cutaneous lymphoma and treatment

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Can wax and wane for years
Prednisolone is a palliative treatment

Chemo has been described

57
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What types of haemangiosarcoma are possible and where do we see disseminated disease

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Rare
Cutaneous, locally invasive or disseminated

Disseminated goes to lung, pleura, skeletal muscle, spleen

58
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What are some common clinical complaints with disseminated haemangiosarcoma

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Dyspnnoea
Swelling
Epistaxis
Lameness

59
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Can we treat haemagiosarcomas

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Cutaneous lesions can be surgically resectable
Locally invasive and disseminated forms mostly untreatable

60
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Characteristics of mast cell tumours in horses

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Generally benign
Respond well to surgical excision/intralesional corticosteroids

61
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Where do we tend to find basal cell carcinoma in horses

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Ditsal limb and tail
Otherwise look like sarcoids
Treat with wide local excision

62
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What are the different SCC syndromes in the horse

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Skin lesions; non-pigmented skin
Genetic
Genitalisa
Gastric

+ others

63
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Which tumours are paraneoplastic syndromes esp common with

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Lymphoma
(paraneoplastic fever, thrombocytopaenia, pruritis)

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