title: Solid tumors.
abstract: Soft-tissue tumors are similar in their behavior. Benign tumors can be easily resected in most cases, whereas malignant tumors are relentless in their locally invasive characteristics. A clear understanding of the constraints of the pathologist in reaching a confirmed diagnosis and a logical plan utilizing surgery as the major modality of therapy are necessary for successful management of these tumors. It appears that radiation combined with hyperthermia is beginning to play a significant role in the local control of soft-tissue sarcomas and that single or multi-agent chemotherapy may be of benefit in treatment of nonresectable or metastatic soft-tissue sarcomas. For the immediate future, surgery remains the only nonexperimental modality of therapy, but the rapid advances in the other therapy methods are encouraging.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004285:Dogs; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*