Articles by Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61802

Articles

Just Ask the Expert: Will pamidronate help manage osteosarcoma pain?
July 1, 2012
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Dr. Timothy Fan answers this reader query about controlling cancer pain.

Just Ask the Expert: An herbal treatment for cancer?
May 1, 2011
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Dr. Timothy Fan discussses the use of Neoplasene in cancer therapy.

Just Ask the Expert: How do you treat cats with intestinal lymphoma?
October 1, 2010
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Treatment of feline intestinal lymphoma requires instituting systemic chemotherapy, with or without surgical resection of focal intestinal lesions.

Just Ask the Expert: Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder and piroxicam
March 4, 2010
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Does piroxicam have any effect in cats with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder?

Just Ask the Expert: Intralesional chemotherapy
June 8, 2009
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

When do you use intralesional chemotherapy? In what cases might it be useful?

Just Ask the Expert: NSAIDs and tumor suppression
May 1, 2009
By: Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Do any NSAIDs besides piroxicam suppress the growth of some cancers in dogs?

An update on diagnosing and treating primary lung tumors
March 1, 2008
By: Kerry C. Rissetto, DVM , Pamela Lucas, DVM , Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

The goal of this article is to describe the common histologic variants, clinical signs, biologic behavior, and newest options for early diagnosis and effective treatment of primary lung tumors in dogs and cats.

Treating paraneoplastic hypercalcemia in dogs and cats
May 1, 2007
By: Pamela Lucas, DVM , Hugues Lacoste, DVM, DACVIM (oncology) , Louis-Philippe de Lorimier, DVM, DACVIM (oncology) , Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

About 45% to 65% of hypercalcemic dogs and 10% to 30% of hypercalcemic cats have underlying neoplasia.

An update on diagnosing and treating urinary bladder transitional cell carcinoma in dogs
June 1, 2006
By: David A. Heller, DVM , Louis-Philippe de Lorimier, DVM, DACVIM (oncology) , Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine, oncology)

Transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder is by far the most common neoplasm of the urinary system in dogs.