Epidemiology and treatment of canine mammary tumours in Jammu region of India

Abstract

The study was carried out on canine cases referred to the department of Surgery and Radiology with the history of enlargement of one or more mammary glands (from last three months to two years). The incidence of mammary tumours was 24% (12 out of 50) among the different tumours and 0.48% among all canine cases. The affected animals were aged 5-13 years with a mean value of 9.1±0.64 years. The malignant tumours accounted 41.66% of the mammary tumours. The metastasis lesions in the form of multiple soft tissue nodules were observed in the lungs of only three of the five malignant tumours. Surgery being the mainstay of the management for canine mammary tumours, simple or regional mastectomy was performed in all cases in the present study. All the animals had uneventful recovery and sutures were removed without any complication of wound. However, long term follow up for 3-11 months revealed that two of the animals with adenocarcinoma and one animal with myoepithelioma died.