title: Multimodality therapy: using the best available treatments together rationally.
abstract: Cancer cases comprise an increasingly important part of companion animal practice. As the state of veterinary oncology continues to improve, the combined use of modalities (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for the most part, biologic response modification to some extent) will be widely evaluated, and its clinical application will become more common.
authors.affiliation: Veterinary Specialists of Rochester, NY 14618, USA.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002415:Cats; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy / Q000592:standards / Q000662:veterinary*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*; D011788:Quality of Life