Hello and welcome to the Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Gisani.

And today it's my great pleasure to welcome Kiara, who works as a clinician on the Oncology Service at the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

So thanks very much, Kiara, for joining me today.

You notice I didn't pronounce your surname because I'm not entirely sure how best to pronounce it.

Is it Leo or Leo?

Leo.

Okay.

So thanks very much for joining me today.

Thank you, Shailin, for inviting me to your podcast, even if I have this very strong Italian accent.

I promise it.

It's going to be fine.

Hopefully people will understand me.

Don't worry.

So look, today I wanted to do was kind of have a general discussion about cancer

and dogs and cats.

And it's obviously talking about oncology in 20 minutes.

But what I want to try and do is kind of give the listeners a refresher

about what cancer is, what the principles of how we should approach it clinically. And then,

hopefully in the future, we can come back and discuss kind of some of the more common types

of cancer that people will see and deal with. And, you know, obviously I know that here at the

obviously we have a kind of flourishing oncology service,

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