I haven't written in some time but I have a question
about one of my cats with leukemia. I took her to the
vet Friday for a check up and blood work (I take all
my cats every 6 months). She has a lump in her
abdomen that was not there in January of this year
when she had an x-ray. She is 4 years old and has had
leukemia since I found her and her 3 kittens a couple
years ago. The vet thinks it is cancer, maybe in the
spleen. She recommended that I have an ultrasound if
I want to do any additional treatment. If I get the
ultrasound, I can see if the cancer is really in the
spleen and if it has spread elsewhere. If it has
spread elsewhere, they recommend I do nothing or
consider chemo. If it just in the spleen, they said I
could consider removing the spleen, doing chemo, or
doing nothing.
Does anybody have experience with this? Has anybody
done the chemo, had tumors removed surgically, etc? I
want to give my girl every chance but I don't want to
put her through all sorts of treatment for nothing.
Her ultrasound is Thursday so I wanted to try to get
any suggestions/advice I could before then. Only one
of my leuk positives has had tumors. They recommended
surgery, opened him up, and found out it was all
intertwined in the mesentary of his intestines and it
couldn't be removed. They biopsied it but it spread
to his lungs before the biopsy results even came back.
He didn't make it and when the results came back,
they said it was the most aggressive cancer they'd
ever seen. Should I expect the same for Shelby, my
cat that has this tumor?
Amy Wilkins
Woof Wagon
www.woofwagon.com
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