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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Oral malignant melanomas and other head and neck neoplasms in Danish dogs - data from the Danish Veterinary Cancer Registry Louise B Brønden, Thomas Eriksen* and Annemarie T Kristensen Address: Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Dyrlægevej 16, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark Email: Louise B Brønden - lobb@life.ku.dk; Thomas Eriksen* - ter@life.ku.dk; Annemarie T Kristensen - atk@life.ku.dk * Corresponding author Published: 18 December 2009 Received: 22 May 2009 Accepted: 18 December 2009 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:54 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-51-54 This article is available from: /content/51/1/54 © 2009 Brønden et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Head and neck cancers (HNC) are relatively common and often very serious diseases in both dogs and humans. Neoplasms originating in the head and neck region are a heterogeneous group. HNC often has an unfavourable prognosis and the proximity of the tissue structures renders extirpation of tumours with sufficient margins almost incompatible with preservation of functionality. In humans