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Unfortunately, they were not able to pinpoint the cancer type. They gave me 3 different possibilities: Histiocytic sarcoma, osteosarcoma, or Hemangiosarcoma. What they removed in his leg was a sarcoma. All 3 of these cancer's are very aggressive and the doctor didn’t recommend that I
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…January. They did xrays, found a small bone lesion at the top of the humerus - less lysis than bone thickening. Discussed that it was probably osteosarcoma, and while discussing amputation and chemo, also suggested stereotactic radiation and chemo. No metastasis was visible anywhere chest x-rays. …
… They in turn referred us to an cancer center that had cyberknife stereotactic radiation. That clinic assumed it was osteosarcoma, did a CT and radiated the tumor. Now, to have the chemo, they sent us back to the original specialty clinic. The oncologist there said she was…
…unable to help us with chemotherapy since the exact tumor type was never identified and the chemotherapies for osteosarcoma and histiocytic sarcoma are very different. Since radiation had already been done, biopsying was no longer an option because it would damage…
…showed no visible metastasis. Unexpectedly, they were able to get an identification from the aspirate. Even more unexpectedly, it came back chondrosarcoma - a much better diagnosis as far a life expectancy, but we now have a dog with a 30-40% risk of pathological fracture. There is no chemotherapy…
…for chondrosarcoma. So, the dog we expected to have a short life, now has a much better prognosis of living, but can never be allowed to bounce around or be a normal
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Always remember that just because a dog has osteosarcoma, that doesn't mean that they will follow the exact prognosis associated with it. Many dogs live far longer than anyone assumes, I've seen them go as
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…old. He was originally misdiagnosed and had been limping for about 5 months or so by the time he had his surgery. They thought we were looking at osteosarcoma, but the biopsy took about 3 weeks to come back and it was histiocytic sarcoma. The lymph node they removed near his leg was also positive,
