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I've been told osteosarcoma has a 90% negative outcome,,, ie the cancer spreads to the lungs,, etc,, If a dog has an amputation and chemo sessions , 6, when does the cancer usually spread to the lungs? is every dog different? are there averages? a period of time after you can say looks like we beat this? or is met eventually going to happen.
Hi Luke 🌺
Every dog is different ...
Some of our dogs live years and years and some have little time ...
If your dog gets into remission you have unlimited time, meaning you are told about long term treatment by your oncologist.
Standard, “by the book” evolution for osteo means cancer spreads to the lungs about 6 months after amputation, that was the case with Eurydice.
This does not mean every dog will have this happening.
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
As Teresa said, every story is different. Those numbers are just statistics and they don't take your wonderful dog into consideration.
Our Jerry was only supposed to live six months. He lived two years! And many have gone longer. Also, many dogs who did outlive their prognoses ended up passing away from other causes, not necessarily lung mets.
So as much as we want to know exactly what's going to happen, it's impossible. It's good to understand what the possible outcome can be, but also keep hope in your heart and stay focused on the present moment. Anything less is allowing cancer to rob you of precious time together. I know you won't let that happen!
By the way I think you should show everyone your wonderful Simon videos!
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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I gladly would show those videos but would not know how to figure that out. If you want to post them on my behalf please do that. Thank you
luke4275 said
I gladly would show those videos but would not know how to figure that out...
FYI: The easiest way to share videos is to upload them to Youtube first, or Vimeo. Then you can paste the share link in your forum post and the movie will automatically embed here in the forums.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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