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…you for the warm welcome! What a great resource this site is. I've already torn through lots of chondrosarcoma stories and they're all really optimistic. I feel like we have a fighting chance, and if anything just a happy, pain-free life left for Pasha.
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I'm so glad you shared all the details of his story (you can never share too many here, because every story helps someone else down the line). Chondrosarcoma isn't too unusual here, but as you learned, the treatment really varies. I'll be really curious to see what the onco vets recommend for his therapy
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…! My name is Ana and I'm one lucky owner of Pasha–the most handsome, goofy and adventurous 4yo English Shepherd. He was recently diagnosed with Chondrosarcoma (cartilage cancer) in his front left limb. I'm just writing you all to share our story, hear any advice you might have, and see if anyone here has…
…experience with Chondrosarcoma. Though it's a common cancer amongst pups, we've had a surprisingly hard time finding much information about it–especially in nonnasal cases. This…
…during the manual exam and his limp was not only one-off, but had improved. Days later, the cytology came back suggesting osteosarcoma or chondrosarcoma. Due to the serious bone mass he was missing in his front left leg and the high likelihood of an aggressive cancer, we all came to the conclusion…
…& Oncology
I think we all feel so much relief post-surgery, despite knowing this journey is just beginning. The biopsy came back confirming chondrosarcoma, but there weren't any lymph nodes present to detect active infection/give us more information about metastases. We've got three oncology…
…). We're not really sure what comes next. Of the studies and anecdotes I've read online, chemotherapy isn't really a common treatment for dogs with chondrosarcoma. If the cancerous lesion can be surgically removed, it seems to progress slowly, but really varies from dog to dog. On one hand, we could have lots
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…my loving girl so I’m holding out hope that it’s anything other than osteosarcoma since the FNA came back as “consistent with sarcoma” with fibro and chondrosarcoma being given as other possibilities. They have a better life expectancy than osteosarcoma post-amputation so I’m holding out hope where I can.
…favoring R front paw in May of this year. X-rays and a bone biopsy were done the end of May as anti inflammatory meds didn’t help. It showed chondrosarcoma and the vet suggested amputation. We saw our regular vet the following week and he started steroid therapy. This was not helpful and more X-rays
…cytological features of the lesion are synovial cell sarcoma, undifferentiated fibrosarcoma or neurofibrosarcoma, histiocytic sarcoma or less likely chondrosarcoma.
While we knew all sarcomas are bad, the report gave us some hope that it may be something less aggressive than an osteosarcoma, especially since
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…a claim to get at least some amputation costs reimbursed by the vaccine manufacturer.
Vaccine Associated Sarcoma - Fibrosarcoma, Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma
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My 4-year-old Golden Retriever had her left rear leg amputated in June 2023 and it was found to be Chondrosarcoma-Grade 2. This was surprising because many aspirations, cut-down biopsies, and an ONCOk9 blood test were negative (march-June 2023). The
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…of game to him.
End of this week / early next week we will get the full pathology report, fingers and paws crossed that the initial low grade chondrosarcoma diagnosis gets confirmed...
One more 'positive' thing.. he got a Snoopy doll from a colleague of my wife to cheer him up. Normally he would
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