I've found my way back to the forum after some years of absence - for the saddest reason of all: cancer :|
Cosmo is 6 and has had an lump on the outside of his ear flap for the last two years. We decided not to do anything about it on the advice of 3 vets, one of whom owns his sire. When he developed a couple of other lumps we decided to do surgery on all of them and send them off for testing. I just got the news that the one on his ear is hemangiosarcoma. I am due to visit the vet next week to talk about next steps.
I suspect that we will be removing more of the ear flap and maybe doing an ultrasound to look for more tumours internally.
Can someone give me some idea of what treatments we might be looking at? Why it's been there for so long and doesn't seem to have affected him?
If it is helpful, Cosmo suffers from really bad allergies. He's been on steroids for the last year and a half (after the ear tumour arrived).
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Cosmo is 6 and has had an lump on the outside of his ear flap for the last two years. We decided not to do anything about it on the advice of 3 vets, one of whom owns his sire. When he developed a couple of other lumps we decided to do surgery on all of them and send them off for testing. I just got the news that the one on his ear is hemangiosarcoma. I am due to visit the vet next week to talk about next steps.
I suspect that we will be removing more of the ear flap and maybe doing an ultrasound to look for more tumours internally.
Can someone give me some idea of what treatments we might be looking at? Why it's been there for so long and doesn't seem to have affected him?
If it is helpful, Cosmo suffers from really bad allergies. He's been on steroids for the last year and a half (after the ear tumour arrived).
Thanks in advance for any feedback!