Mammary Tumours and Urogenital Tumours Flashcards
Sex predispositon for mammary tumours in cats and dogs?
Female entire
Which species is most frequently affected by mammary tumours?
Dogs
What proportion of all tumours arising in the bitch are mammary tumours?
50%
In which species are mammary tumours more often malignant?
Feline
What are associated with an increased risk of mammary gland tumours in intact or ovariohysterectomised dogs:
A) Diet?
B) Obesity (2)
A) Red meat diet
B) obesity at 1 year and 1 year before diagnosis
Which mammary glands are more commonly involved?
2 posterior glands
What are the 4 classifications of canine mammary gland tumours according to WHO?
carcinomas (with six types and additional subtypes);
sarcomas (four types);
carcinosarcomas (mixed mammary tumours);
benign adenomas.
Staging system for canine mammary adenocarcinomas are newly staged according to (4)
- invasiveness;
- pT (pathological tumour size: greatest diameter in millimeters on HES-stained histological slides);
- LVI (lymphovascular invasion: the presence of tumor emboli within lymph and/or blood vessels- which precedes nodal metastasis);
- pN (pathological nodal stage confirmed by cytokeratin AE1/AE3 immunohistochemistry [vs clinical nodal stage]).
Mammary tumour, stage 0:
A) Invasiveness
B) pT
C) LVI
D) pN
A) In situ
B) Any
C) -
D) -/unknown
Mammary tumour, stage 1:
A) Invasiveness
B) pT
C) LVI
D) pN
A) Invasive
B) <20mm
C) -
D) - /unknown
Mammary tumour, stage 2:
A) Invasiveness
B) pT
C) LVI
D) pN
A) Invasive
B) >20mm
C) -
D) -/unknown
Mammary tumour, stage IIIA:
A) Invasiveness
B) pT
C) LVI
D) pN
A) Invasive
B) ≤20 mm
C/D) +pN +/or + LVIzs
Mammary tumour, stage IIIB:
A) Invasiveness
B) pT
C) LVI
D) pN
A) Invasive
B) >20mm
C) +
D) +
Signalment for mammary tumours in cats?
FE
Older (11yr)
Which mammary glands are more commonly involved in cat tumour?
2 anterior or thoracic glands
What is the most common feline mammary tumour?
Adenocarcinoma
What staging system is used for mammary tumours in dogs and cats?
TMN
What % of tumours are malignant in cats?
90%
What behaviour with a mammary tumour helps to determine prognosis?
Rate of growth
What grading system is used for cytology of mammary mass?
Robinsons grading
What does the robinsons grading system evaluate?
- Hypercellularity
- Variable cellular size and shape (pleomorphism, anisocytosis, macrocytosis)
- Variable nuclear size and shape (anisokaryosis, macrokaryosis)
- Increased nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio; large, prominent or multiple nucleoli
- Nuclear molding
- Chromatin clearing, chromatin clumping
- Presence of abnormal multinucleated cells
Mitotic figures.
What is the effect of spaying at the same times as mammary mass removal?
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