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Melanoma – Where Are We and What Does the Future Hold?
T. Brazil
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Melanoma is a common, variably infiltrative and potentially malignant neoplasm affecting almost exclusively adult (mean age 13 years) grey horses [1]. Many horses die for unrelated reasons without their melanomas ever causing any problems. Consequently for many years veterinary surgeons have taken a view of benign neglect unless the melanomas are extensive, ulcerated or compromise the horse’s welfare due to local enlargement, invasion, or internal distant metastasis. Prevalence rates as high as 80% in the grey horse population have been reported with claims that 2 in 3 tumours will eventually become malignant [1]. Of the 4 types of melanoma described (melanocytic nevus, discrete dermal melanoma, dermal melanomatosis and anaplastic malignant melanoma) the vast majority of cases involve the dermal forms ...
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Equine Medicine on the Move & Bourton Vale Equine Clinic, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL54 2EX, UK
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