Cats can suffer from a variety of cancers including lymphoma, cancer of the liver, bladder or stomach, and tumors in any other organs or tissues in the feline body. Tumors can either be benign, meaning they are not cancerous, or malignant, meaning they are cancerous.
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Surgical Removal
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When the cancer is accessible or detected early, it can often be removed surgically. Surgery is often combined with radiation therapy or chemotherapy to achieve the best results.
Radiation Therapy
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Radiation therapy is often used together with chemotherapy or with surgery to control or remove tumors. Radiation therapy can be used to treat tumors in the brain, small skin tumors, lymphoma, osteosarcoma and oral or nasal tumors.
Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy works by damaging cancerous cells and thus reducing their ability to rapidly grow or multiply. Chemotherapy can be used together with surgical removal to help prevent metastasis (spreading) of cancerous cells.
Immunotherapy
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A relatively new type of treatment, immunotherapy is a collective group of treatments that stimulate the cat's immune system, allowing the immune system to fight the cancer off on it's own.
Additional Treatments
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Several other treatments for cancer exist including photodynamic therapy, hyperthermia, cryotherapy and a variety of other clinical trials that may prove to be beneficial to felines.
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