Warning: do a biopsy on all bumps lumps
- Lumps, bumps on an older dog? Aspirate for biopsy, that's the answer. If your vet says not needed, find a different vet. Mast Cell Tumors can ulcerate and degranulate releasing histamines through out its body. Imagine your dog covered in spider bites and poison oak -then the skin sluffs under nail. But they don't need to ulcerate to release histamines. Be very careful. Mast Cell Cancer can kill your dog in less than a month if aggressive. My dog's tumor stayed the same way for a year. The vet said most likely benign a year before it took off and grew 3x in size, ulcerated. I took it in: most likely benign. The histamines released five days later -wen back in: most likely benign. A week later I went to another vet: GRADE III MAST CELL TUMOR, aggressive; regional lymph node. She died 13 days after diagnoses. Tried chemo, and it was too effective. Knocker her back, last day we even tried a blood transfusion to bounce her around the corner. All failed. Horrible. painful, destructiv
- —Guest I miss her so much
Corbi's paw lump
- Corbi's a 5 year old australian shepherd/lab.About 6 weeks ago, I noticed a small lump on his right forepaw. It grew quite rapidly and after being treated with anti-biotics for a possible infection, his inevitable biopsy showed grade 2 cancer. He's since had his 2 inside toes removed, as the growth was in between the toes. Now that the final bandaging has been removed, 2 days ago, he walks quite well. I am keeping a close eye on it though..as I've been warned of the possibility that all cancer cells have not been removed. I hope that the stitched site on top of his foot isn't a bit puffy. Hope it's just concern that has me imagining things. He's my life-line.
- —Guest Laurie
Hard, unpainful lump on Cocker Spaniel
- Our 9 year old cocker spaniel is at the age where dogs just start getting lumpy. She has spots here and there that are fatty tumors, but she has this large, hard mass of a tumor on her teet that just continues to grow. The thing is, is that she seems perfectly fine. She runs around and plays, wags her tail, eats with gusto. The only time it seems she's in any pain is if she lays directly on it, which she follows with a shift of her body and is fine. I want it removed because it just gets bigger every day, but since it doesn't bother the dog, my mother doesn't want to pay for the surgery since she's so old. It worries me to see how big it's getting (roughly the size of a baseball, but kind of tear drop shaped), but as long as she's not in pain, there's nothing I can do but keep an eye on it.
- —Guest mkb
Sofie - cancerous lump inside cheek
- Sofie is a boxer. I took her to a dental veterinarian to have her teeth cleaned and excess gums removed. Dr. Bloom called me during the procedure to inform me of a lump inside her right cheek and recommended its removal. I agreed and she sent it out for a biopsy. The biopsy results were cancerous. Sofie is fine but we continue to monitor her for signs of cancer in her lymph nodes. I am truly grateful to my vet. Sofie is my heart and little heavenly angel.
- —Guest Sofie - bump on rt cheek
Mass cell tumor
- My 7 year old boston terrier had a grade 2 tumor removed from her paw. Vet said to watch. I will love her and manage her pain if things turn for the worst as I had to put a boxer down years ago this is the sad part of having pets as we love them SO much they bring so much joy I am falling apart now.
- —Guest Sissy Arant
bump on cocker spaniels head
- we have a six year old cocker spaniel who has a bump on hi s head it has not grown for almost two years it looks ok. The vet checks it out ever so often.
- —Guest brian
Liz
- We just lost a gorgeous 2 yr old Cairn Terrier to stomach cancer. We are devastated. She started out vomiting in the middle of the night small amounts of liquid every now and then. After a couple months she urinated in the house an extremely large puddles which we thought was from our larger dog until I saw her. She started drinking large amounts of water often. Our vet gave her antibiotics after blood and urine test because she had a fever. In two days she stopped eating. I thought it was from the antibiotics. We took her to a different vet who took xrays and found something in her stomach that he thought was a object she ate. He operated and found cancer in her pancreas and stomach. She never woke up. At 2 years old she was a gorgeous picture of health. She was a perfect dog. I am still shocked and terribly heartbroken, I just can't believe it.
- —Guest Liz
Lump on Pups spine
- Got two Black labs cross puppies, littermates under a year old. Found a lump against the boy puppies spine, about the size of a dollar coin. Worried about him, and now going to check the sister over.. They're both still too young, and I hope it's just a fatty lump.
- —Guest Ausi
Freddie is 7 1/2 to 8 years old.
- I've had Fred for about 7 years, couple of years ago felt a tiny moving round lump on his right side. Today it feels a little bigger, so I asked my vet (they only speak spanish) about it. And I've come to the conclusion by looking on this site that it is a fatty tumor. I will keep an eye on it now.
- —Guest Rhoda
found a lump on my dear dogs leg
- I found a lump on my dear dogs leg while washing him tonight. He'll go to the vet tomorrow but I think he has a lipoma. If he can have it removed surgically then so be it but if it's cancer, radiation and chemo are just poisons that make his immune system weak and IT DOESN'T CURE CANCER-surgery of a cancerous mass is real dangerous as those cells get in the blood stream and start metastasizing. I like the Gerson therapy and that is no meat, ground carrots and apples mixed in rice and then I'll give him some fresh fish which isn't part of the gerson therapy. I know we all get rid of cancer cells daily with a proper functioning immune system but money is the root of all evil and "more people live off of cancer then die from it."
- —ciaofornow
joe my australian sheppard
- joe had a large lump on the right side of his head in november 2010. At first there seemed to be no hope of living long. Then Andy Wise from channel 5 in Memphis told me about Dr. Kathy Mitchener. She is the best oncologist in the Mid South. My dog has been living with cancer for for a year and three months due to the great care Dr Mitchner with Angel Care has taken of my beloved dog Joe,and he does not even act sick at this point,but I hold my breath every single day just to spend more time with him.
- —Guest laura Allen
What do I do
- My brothers lab died with little warning after a huge mass was discovered in her tummy. A few weeks later, I found a lump on my wolf. It was small at first and I kept trying to get someone to remove it as it was growing rapidly. Finally when it had grown to almost touching her leg joint, I demanded it removed. The area was left with drain tube and stapled and 5 days after original surgery, a pocket filled and had to go back and this time he sewed the large incision together. My wolf tells me its still hurting, I went back two days ago to see if pocket was filling again and was told it was draining fine. Now I am snowed in 4 feet of snow and it looks like the pocket left is filling and she is in pain taking 50ML liquid Morophine. I am running out of money and my wolf is fed up. She is diabetic also just diagnosed and will not let me give her shot or muzzle her without going crazy. I know this is because she keeps hurting and is getting where she will not trust me. I need help.
- —shadownsden
Lump in throat
- Our 9 year old choc lab has many lipomas and needle aspiration confirms they are benign. Recently I found a lump in the throat area, the vet says it must come off because of the location, it is also an area full of blood vessels. We are very worried but have agreed to surgery next week. I am so worried whether we are doing the right thing...
- —Guest Denise
cancer in my golden retrievier
- Missy, is 9 years old when she was 4 I noticed a small mole come up on top of her nose, I took her to vet as soon as he saw it he said it had to come off. It was cancer. Since then she has had 4 surgeries.she has a lot of fatty lumps, but the ones they came up like moles were the cancerous ones. Please get them checked. Every one told me it wasn't anything, But it was.
- —Guest Dawn Thrasher
Mast cell tumor
- Our Roxy is a 10 year old border collie/chow mix. A few months back, she developed a tiny bump on the left side of her nose that looked like a papiloma. The vet did an aspirate and didn't see anything definitive, so we decided to watch it. It hasn't grown, but a little over a week ago, I found a tiny red bump on her tummy. This time, the aspirate showed mast cells. So we had both lumps removed and am now awaiting a pathology report. The tummy lump allowed for large margins, but the nose lump obviously did not. Ominously, her nose is now inflamed looking and the incision site is oozing blood (mast cell tumors often secrete histamines when disturbed), so I am very worried. A friend had a dog with a mast cell tumor on his nose a couple of years back, and she opted for radiation treatment. It seems this killed the tumor, but now his nose is permanently scarred and inflamed and he now has skin cancer there. Radiation treatment is very costly, but Roxy is like a child to us.
- —Guest Erica
