Tom
Cave BVSc DSAM MRCVS
Professional
experience and qualifications
Tom graduated as a vet from the University of Bristol in 1996
and spent 4 years in private practice in the southwest gaining
the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Medicine in 1999.
He then
moved to the University of Glasgow as the RCVS Trust Clarke
& Sparrow Resident in Clinical Oncology and Haematology
in 2000. In 2002 he undertook an externship at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Centre, Seattle to study non-ablative
allogenic bone marrow transplantation. On his return he became
Senior Clinical Oncologist at Glasgow.
In 2003
he returned to the southwest to provide a private oncology
and internal medicine referral service. In 2004 he passed
the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Medicine and completed the
Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer
Studies MSc in Clinical Oncology at Birmingham university
he submits his MSc thesis in March 2005. He is a founder member
of the UK
feline dysautonomia study group and a member of the British
Veterinary Oncology Study Group Separate
research theses in feline infectious disease and dysautonomia
are in preparation for a doctorate in veterinary medicine
and fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
respectively.
Special
interests and research areas
Medical oncology
Haematology (anaemia, clotting disorders)
Feline dysautonomia
Selected
publications
T.A.
Cave, T. Gemmill (1999): Cerebral menigioma in an
odd-eyed white longhair cat . UK Vet 43: 67-74.
T.A.
Cave, R. Hine, F. Howie, M. Sullivan, H. Thompson, D.J. Argyle
(2002): Uterine carcinoma in a 10-month-old golden
retriever.
Journal of Small Animal Practice 43: 133-135
T.A.
Cave, H.M. Martineau, A. Dickie, H. Thompson, D.J. Argyle
(2002): Idiopathic hepatic veno-occlusive disease
causing Budd-Chiari-like syndrome in a cat.
Journal of Small Animal Practice 43: 411-416
T.A.
Cave, H. Thompson, S.W.J. Reid, D.R. Hodgson, D.D. Addie (2002):
Kitten mortality in the United Kingdom: retrospective analysis
of 274 histopathological examinations (1986-2000).
Veterinary Record 151: 497-501
T.A.
Cave, C.M. Knottenbelt, D.J. Mellor, F. Nunn, P. Nart, S.W.J.
Reid (2003) An outbreak of feline dysautonomia (Key-Gaskell
syndrome) in a closed colony of pet cats. Veterinary Record
153: 387-392
V.S.
Johnson, I.K. Ramsey, H. Thompson, T.A. Cave, F.J. Barr, H.
Rudorf, A. Williams, M. Sullivan (2004) Thoracic
high-resolution computed tomography in the diagnosis of metastatic
carcinoma.
Journal of Small Animal Practice 45: 134-143
A.J.
Tebb, T. A. Cave, R. Barron, A.L. Brown, H.M. Martineau, B.J.
Willett, M. Hosie. (2004) Diagnosis and management
of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in a cat. Veterinary
Record 154: 430-433
T.A.
Cave, V.S. Johnson, T. Beths, R. Edwards, D.J. Argyle. (2004)
Treatment of unresectable hepatocellular adenoma in dogs with
transarterial iodised oil and chemotherapy with and without
an embolic agent: a report of two cases.
Journal of Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 1:
191-199
T.A.
Cave, M.C. Golder, J. Simpson, D.D. Addie (2004)
Risk factors for feline coronavirus seropositivity in cats
relinquished to a UK rescue charity.
Journal of Feline Medicine & Surgery 6: 53-58
D.N.
Clements, A.M. Hogan, T.A. Cave (2004) Treatment
of a well differentiated pulmonary adenocarcinoma in a cat
by pneumonectomy and adjuvant mitoxantrone chemotherapy.
Journal of Feline Medicine & Surgery 6: 199-205
F.
Nunn, T.A. Cave, C. Knottenbelt, I.R. Poxton Association
between Key-Gaskell syndrome and infection by Clostridium
botulinum type C/D.
Veterinary Record 155: 111-115
T.A.
Cave, E.A. Gault, D.J. Argyle. Feline epitheliotrophic
T-cell lymphoma with paraneoplastic eosinophilia – immunochemotherapy
with vinblastine and human recombinant interferon a2b.
Journal of Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 2:
91-97
