I am devastated, espcially since I just lost my dog Nubi a month ago to cancer and my dog Fern currently has it, and because Simon is just 3 1/2 and such a beautiful boy. he is in the hospital now getting supportive therapy and starting chemo and steroids. Have not gotten the results of the bone marrow biopsy yet so do not know the extent of the spread. The oncologist says best prognosis if he responds to chemo is probably 6 months, and more likely 3-4.
Have any of you besides Belinda had an FeLV+ cat with lymphoma in the liver and, if so, how did you treat it and what were the results? And Belinda, did your cat with the liver cancer have FeLV? The oncologist says the FeLV makes the prognosis worse. I had heard that it does not affect how cats respond to chemo, but that it makes the cancer more likely to return quickly. Does anyone have any info or insight on this? My other two positives who died of lymphoma almost two years ago did not get chemo. I did prednisone only plus herbs and, toward the end, dexamethasone shots. They each lived 3 months after diagnosis. I want to try chemo with Simon but am worried about doing so as well. My dog Nubi got it and it was hard on her and she died after just 4 months. My dog Fern is on an experimental antiangiogenic drug with no side effects (she's in a study) and some supportive herbs and is comfortable and it's been just over a year since diagnosis and her prognosis was 2-6 months. I don't know if it is the experimental drug, the herbs, or what, but it makes me wonder about doing something other than chemo with my boy. But then she eats everything and it was stressful for my other two cats when I gave them herbs because I had to pill and syringe them. Fern just eats them with her meals. So it's different. Plus there is no experimental drug for Simon, other than maybe the VO. Anyway, just looking for insight and stories of similar diagnoses with positives. I am having difficulty thinking of anything but him right now, and am driving back to visit him in the hospital soon. Michelle
