Saturday, July 24, 2010

Re: [CanineCancer] Not an uncommon tale: 3 yr old Boxer with Mast Cell on tip of docked tail

Many people have a VERY misguided notion that treating cancer in dogs is the same as treating cancer in people and that's just flat out false. Dogs tolerate cancer treatments better than people do and have a better prognosis with cancer than most human beings.

Calm down and stop feeling this thing out. Start THINKING it out. From what I'm reading in your posts, you are upset and scared. That's NORMAL. Now take a deep breath and get through those feelings because it's time to knuckle down and get down to business and kick this in the backside.

Right now.. you don't have enough information to move forward.

You need to get this lump removed. You need to have it sent to a lab and graded.

For all you know right now, the thing is grade 1, which is NO BIG DEAL and may never reoccur. You will not know that until the lab work has been done.

My .02 cents.

Stacy and Lucy
Grade 3 MCT
Removed 5-26-10
Radiation begun 7-19-10

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