Osteosarcoma: a serious diagnosis: management is possible with prompt veterinary intervention.(Disease/Disorder overview)

Thanks to the numerous advances in veterinary medicine, many of the cancers to which cats are susceptible are now controllable, sometimes curable--and even preventable (in the case of mammary cancer, for example). This does not always hold true, however, for osteosarcoma, a highly destructive feline bone cancer for which there is no known cure unless it is detected early.

Once osteosarcoma has invaded a cat's body, the best that the animal's owner can hope for is early diagnosis and management of the disease. If the cancer is confined to a limited area of an affected cat's body, successful treatment will almost always involve surgical excision--the amputation of a leg, for example, or the removal …