With some restrictions under the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 and the Stock Medicines Act 1989 (most notably in relation to food producing species), the supply options for a veterinarian in NSW include a registered product for that animal species, a registered product for use in another animal species or humans or an unregistered product compounded by either a compounding pharmacy or the veterinarian.

Veterinary clients are increasingly likely to choose to treat their animal for cancer and cancer chemotherapy is becoming more widely available. The SafeWork NSW guidelines have recently been updated so now is a good time to cover the important topic of chemotherapy safety.

Commonly used cytotoxic drugs include chlorambucil, vincristine, cyclosphosphamide, doxorubicin and carboplatin.