Do any of you have experience with skin cancers in dogs?? I need some advice quickly. I'm posting this under "General Basset Hound Discussion" for better exposure. I hope it can remain here for a while, as this is the catagory that is read most often. I hope that someone out there can advise me in this area because I am scared for Dixie.
My housecleaner called me at work today, to tell me that there was blood all over the kitchen. She said that Dixie was bleeding "from her nipple". As it turned out, it wasn't her nipple ...it was coming from a blood-red mole-like thing right next to it. She has four of these spots on her underside next to or near her nipples. They were there when I adopted her in February. They were there when I took her to the vet for the check-up the day after she came to us. I disctinctly remember them but I didn't point them out, as she has other little things that we were focused on ...like her cyst on her back and the placque on her teeth and her itchy little ears. We focused on all of that and took care of it.
SO ...we had a consultation with the vet today and he recommends surgery/removal and sending them to a "histopathologist". She goes in on Monday for surgery. We're having the bloodwork and EKG as a precaution ...surgery follows. He said it will take about an hour.
We are praying that this is benign. There is a good chance it is ...but there are also many terrible things it could be. If any of you have info on this, please post or email me. Any advice is greatly appreciated on older dogs being put under anesthesia or skin cancers and treatment.
My housecleaner called me at work today, to tell me that there was blood all over the kitchen. She said that Dixie was bleeding "from her nipple". As it turned out, it wasn't her nipple ...it was coming from a blood-red mole-like thing right next to it. She has four of these spots on her underside next to or near her nipples. They were there when I adopted her in February. They were there when I took her to the vet for the check-up the day after she came to us. I disctinctly remember them but I didn't point them out, as she has other little things that we were focused on ...like her cyst on her back and the placque on her teeth and her itchy little ears. We focused on all of that and took care of it.
SO ...we had a consultation with the vet today and he recommends surgery/removal and sending them to a "histopathologist". She goes in on Monday for surgery. We're having the bloodwork and EKG as a precaution ...surgery follows. He said it will take about an hour.
We are praying that this is benign. There is a good chance it is ...but there are also many terrible things it could be. If any of you have info on this, please post or email me. Any advice is greatly appreciated on older dogs being put under anesthesia or skin cancers and treatment.
I could certainly relate to your concerns Faysie. The bottom line on benign or malignant, you really won't know until the pathology report comes back. But I had probably 50 lumps removed from my dogs over the years and only one turned out to be cancer and that was one that looked the least suspicious.
