Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Dogs and Cats – Getting Great Outcomes in your Patients

In this course, I extensively review the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas in dogs and cats with an emphasis on specifics of surgery for different anatomical locations.
Sarcomas

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Introduction

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Soft Tissue Sarcoma Introduction
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Course Overview

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Money Back Guarantee
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free

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Overview of Soft Tissue Sarcomas

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10 Steps for Surgical Oncology
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Histological Types of Soft Tissue Sarcomas
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General Principles of Soft Tissue Sarcomas
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Workup of Patients with Soft Tissue Sarcomas
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Biopsy Principles
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Prognostic Indicators
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Surgical Oncology Checklist
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General Principles of Surgery for Soft Tissue Sarcomas

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Surgical Excision
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Postoperative pain relief
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Reconstruction options
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Locations and Anatomical Considerations

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Soft tissue sarcoma behaviour by location
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Oral Cavity
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Head and Facial Tumours
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Neck, External Thorax, Chest Wall and External Abdomen
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Forelimb
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Hindlimb
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Mechanical Ventilation PDF
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Feline Soft Tissue Sarcomas

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Injection Site Sarcomas
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Options for Dirty Margins/Adjuvant Treatments

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Managing dirty margins
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Copy of Course Evaluation Survey

Copy of Google forms surgery

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Created by

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Dr. Charles A. Kuntz, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, MANZCVSc, ACVS Founding Fellow of Surgical Oncology
Southpaws Specialty Surgery for Animals Moorabbin Victoria, Australia
Charles attended the University of Florida for undergraduate work and for his veterinary degree. He did an internship at the Animal Medical Center on the Upper East Side of New York City. Following that, he did a combined surgical residency and master’s degree in Virginia which he completed in 1994. He then did a 12 month research fellowship in cardiac surgery at Auburn University and an 18 month surgical oncology fellowship at Colorado State University. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and an ACVS Founding Fellow of Surgical Oncology. He was an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery also at Colorado State University before he started a large surgical referral hospital in Washington DC. He was on the Board of Directors for the District of Columbia Academy of Veterinary Medicine and also the Program Chair.

He started Southpaws Specialty Surgery for Animals in 2004 in Melbourne Australia. He set up the first deep radiation therapy unit for animals in Australia which is still the only one in the state of Victoria. Southpaws has grown from just Charles and a single nurse to a mega-practice with over 170 employees.

Charles has lectured internationally on topics including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, urinary surgery, orthopaedic surgery and non-cancer soft tissue surgery as well as leadership in the workplace. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, proceedings, abstracts and book chapters. He also started the SouthpawsVet youtube channel in which has pioneered live-streaming surgery in animals with over 15,000 subscribers and over 5 million views.

Charles is married to Dr. Kate Savage, a specialist in equine internal medicine and has three sons who are either doctors or in medical school. The furry love of his life is Humphrey, a 4 year old black Labrador.