Review of Canine Lymphoma Treated with Chemotherapy-Outcomes and Prognostic Factors.

ABSTRACT: While canine lymphoma is a relatively common and important disease seen by veterinarians, there are limited comprehensive reviews of the literature regarding the remission and survival times following chemotherapy, and the associated prognostic factors. This comprehensive thematic review covers the available veterinary literature covering treatment outcomes and identified prognostic factors. A lack of standardised approaches to evaluate and report the outcomes was identified, including factors that would alter the duration of responses by weeks, or occasionally months. After publication of the suggested reporting criteria, this has improved but is still not uniformly applied. The prognostic factors included for evaluation varied from as few as three to seventeen, with over 50 studies using

SUBMITTER: Bennett P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10224423 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature