Dataset Information

Demographics of dogs and cats with oral tumors presenting to teaching hospitals: 1996-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oral neoplasia has been reported to account for 6-7% of all canine cancer and 3% of all feline cancers. To the authors' knowledge the last epidemiologic analysis of general oral cancer in dogs and cats was published in 1976.

Objectives

The goal of this study was to report contemporary demographic information regarding oral tumors in dogs and cats.

Methods

Information was collected from cats or dogs diagnosed with oral neoplasia from the Veterinary Medical Data Base. Medical records representing cases that presented to one of 26 veterinary teaching hospitals from January 1, 1996 through December 31, 2017 were included.