Clinical and Histopathological Study on Dog s Tumors in Iraq

The study was conducted on twenty dogs from variety breeds to estimate the incidence of tumor mass and determine the risk factors of survey to cases of a year in veterinary hospital in Baghdad. The most common clinical signs were, ulceration, bleeding into lesions in addition to drowsiness, anorexia, fever and the others were depended tumor s location in dog s body like lameness, lacrimation and bloody constipation etc. The results showed 70% of the infected dogs were working with military forces and 30% of them were pet dogs and we found that the highest percentage of tumor accrued in dogs aged more than 10 years and the females recorded 60% of infection. Terrier breed had the highest percentage of infection (30%) followed by German shepherd (25%). the most tumor affected part of the body were mammary glands in females and the limbs in both gender (25% each one) and followed by the other sites, the histopathology picture had recorded seven types of malignant tumors in (skin, intestine and mammary glands) more frequent was Sequmas cell carcinoma 35% Adenocarcinoma 20%. Some dogs had more than one type of cancer, and some cases had recorded of benign tumors other cases had only transformed tissue but not cancer.