Question about cancer and cancer treatment for dogs?
My husband and I think our dog might have cancer. She has had a pea-sized mole on her shoulder since she was 1 or 2. We took her to the vet to make sure it was ok, and he said it was fine as long as it didn't grow. If it grew, it could mean she has cancer. She's 8 now, and I just noticed the other day her mole had nearly doubled in size, and isn't as symmetrical and round as it was.. its more flat now and looks a lot like a mushroom. On top of that, her breathing has been getting heavier and more shallow. She'll let out these violent coughs, than pant/gasp for a while. We already have a vet appointment scheduled for a whole bunch of tests.. but I wanted to know: What types of treatments are out there for dogs with cancer? Does she stand a good chance? Just the facts: Did you really just drop in to insult me? Did I say that I was going to let my dog suffer, or spend "thousands of dollars on painful treatments"? No. But I also don't KILL my dog without seeing if whatever she has is treatable. Get a life, troll.
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If cancer's detected early and the tumor is still small, odds are your vet will recommend that it be removed surgically. This involves removing not only the tumor but also a margin of surrounding skin, to make a recurrence less likely. If the cancer has spread to surrounding lymph nodes, successful removal of all of the affected nodes and the tumor can result in a cure. If it has spread further, surgery is unlikely to remove all of the cancer. But removing the primary site may still provide relief and improve the dog's quality of life. Often, treatment can put a cancer into a partial or total remission--meaning a decrease in the size of a tumor, or that there is no cancer still detectable in the body. Remission does not necessarily mean cured. Often, remission is a state, and there is a likelihood of eventual return. While remission times have increased with better treatment, for many types of cancer the eventual return is inevitable.
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Sane adults don't force animals to linger & suffer..........OR .....spends THOUSANDS on useless expensive PAINFUL "treatments".
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