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…second tumor. Altogether we got an amazing 2 full years. 

From the time I knew that our biggest issue wouldn't be mets but rather another painful osteosarcoma the thing most important for me was a pain regiment that would allow Manni quality of life. I consulted with my two vets all the time, read

…and about 7 weeks after surgery. The good news is that he didn't have pulmonary metastases visible on radiographs. The bad news is that there is an osteosarcoma on one of his ribs. In retrospect they can find it on his radiographs from before surgery (it was much smaller and less aggressive looking). To

…to hear there is a vet who is doing that to their patients. Grrr. 

Now, from what you are describing, Jack is showing serious pain signals
. Osteosarcoma pain is the worst there is, and it's time to decide: try palliative radiation therapy (or even electrochemotherapy), or take the leg and hope for

…10 year old lab got diagnosed with osteosarcoma on 7/30/19. Came as a major shock to us as he has been incredibly active and healthy. I thought his small limp in June was something but he was

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I’m brand-new to the TriPawds web site. I’m so glad the vet recommended the site to me.

My dear cat Georgie was diagnosed in April 2019 with osteosarcoma on her front left foreleg. I tried two tumor  debulking surgeries by they didn’t help and the radiation oncologist said is palliative not curative.

…12lb. chihuahua terrier was having a reoccurring limp and pain, and the x ray on 7/1 showed a moth eaten knee, typical of osteosarcoma. We did the amputation on 7/10 after having to wait for a surgery availability, with plans to do chemo afterward. The biopsy results came in today,

…dear cat Georgie was diagnosed in April 2019 with osteosarcoma. The time has come to amputate her front left foreleg since two debulking surgeries did not help and radiation is palliative not curative.

We

…dog Casey, an 11 year old golden retriever was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his hind leg in July 2018.  We did sterotactic surgery, 6 rounds of carboplantin and monthly zoledonate.  So far there has been no sign of

…no bone involvement, whacked that lump down to size , and sent it off to be biopsied. Of COURSE the biopsy came back inconclusive--it was either osteosarcoma or an atypical ameloblastoma and the pathologist was leaning towards ameloblastoma after getting a second opinion. The pathologist recommended…

…sense to us!  

We decided to go ahead and get the further biopsy staining done before the second treatment and the results came back as atypical osteosarcoma. Ugh. 

So I started emailing Dr. Tu at Sage with the biopsy result, questions about hypothetical tooth pulling, criteria for further ECT

…lost my beloved dog last week.  She was diagnosed with metastatic osteosarcoma in March and underwent stereotactic radiation and came home on Palladia and losartan.  After 2 fantastic months she suddenly developed a cardiac

…there! This must be the month for atypical osteosarcomas! Codie Rae had a tumor in her mouth identified as osteo that did not start in the bone but rather the periodontal ligament (not sure if that

…at Colorado State University are working on:

CANCER VACCINE AND PHARMACOLOGICAL TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT MODIFICATION TRIAL FOR CANINE METASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA
Purpose of the study:

To evaluate an osteosarcoma tumor lysate vaccine in combination with losartan and propranolol in dogs with metastatic osteosarcoma

Primary Eligibility Criteria:

Dogs that have had surgery to remove their primary tumor and a confirmed diagnosis of osteosarcoma with

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Our dog, Molly has osteosarcoma in her right hip and she just underwent stereotactic radiation and will start chemo tomorrow. No amputation. I am very interested in immunotherapy

…dog, Molly has osteosarcoma in her right hip and she just underwent stereotactic radiation and will start chemo tomorrow. No amputation. I am very interested in immunotherapy

…Tuesday: Lawri Beats the Feline Fibrosarcoma Odds

Little Man: Loving Life on Three Legs

Mona

VACCINE ASSOCIATED SARCOMA - FIBROSARCOMA, OSTEOSARCOMA, CHONDROSARCOMA | THREE LEGGED CATS

Vaccine Associated Sarcoma Cats Share Stories and Information

I did a search for fibrosarcoma's you can

…and family, welcome. We are so glad you joined but of course sorry you had to. We will try to offer what we've learned about osteosarcoma in cats but first I'm curious if you're working with a veterinary oncologist yet? If not, that would be my first recommendation, just to get in…

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I'm happy to hear Mo is doing so well! What made you wonder all of these things a year after surgery? Did something happen? Just curious.

Yep, osteosarcoma in cats is super rare. And the good news is that it has such a good prognosis that most veterinary oncologists don't even suggest chemotherapy for…

…treatment. In our recent Tripawds News Blog
post about a new canine osteosarcoma immunotherapy treatment, Dr. Jeffrey Bryan says "Fortunately cats tend to do better with amputation alone than dogs do." Other oncologists we've…

…better about doing chemotherapy just to cover their bases, like Jill's mom. See: https://jillsjo.....pawds.com/

We have had quite a few osteosarcoma cats here who have done great long term! These Tripawd Cats with Osteosarcoma forum topics and blogs are a good place to see some examples.

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…thousand dollars, than curative SRT. 

Our dog’s (Pee Wee, 62 lb, almost 15 year old lab mix) case is slightly unusual as she has scapular osteosarcoma which made it easier for us to choose curative SRT versus amputation as there is a much lower risk of pathological fracture due to the fact that the

…the truth is that should not be a consideration in itself.

My baby Eurydice was a huge Great Dane who lost her right front leg (and shoulder) to Osteosarcoma and weighed 77kg/170lb pre amputation.

That never, ever stopped her from being incredibly active and deliriously happy! 

I am on my mobile and

…with osteosarcoma, many people suggest throwing  everything at it. I have used cyber knife radiation instead of amputation, I’m using THC marijuana, I’m using Chinese

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…up having two legs amputated, and if I remember correctly they did well for a while afterwards. 

Rocky had his right front leg amputated due to osteosarcoma. It ended up spreading down his side and to his rear left leg. Unfortunately,  we didn't find this out until that leg suffered a pathological

…in the spine?  Beam radiation will damage the spinal cord, and surgery to remove a section isn't an option.

Our dog, Bree, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in Jan. 2017.  We did stereotactic radiation with carboplatin chemo, and it worked for a little while.  When the tumor started growing again, we

…dog is scheduled for a left forelimb amputation on Tuesday. She is a 14 y.o. red-nose pittie who was just diagnosed with osteosarcoma of her distal radius yesterday. The oncologist recommended amputation and radiation (no metastizing visible in the radiographs). It occurred to

…and also the pain will escalate and spiral out of control very quickly.

One important thing to realise is there are no drugs which can get rid of osteosarcoma pain 100%.

I am no vet but as I see it if you keep the leg (and as you cannot do radiation) your Zanzi will be in a lot of pain soon.

Age is

…beloved beautiful Lab Molly has been diagnosed with osteosarcoma. We love her so much and are devastated. We have decided that if she has any chance at all we are going to give it to her. On Monday when we went

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my golden abby is having a tough week. She is an 11 year old golden. Front amputee on 1/5/2018 but also diagnosed with nasal Osteosarcoma on 11/2/2016. I did radiation for the nasal cancer but no treatments for the leg. Just amputation and i have had her on an agressive holistic

…recommend chemotherapy with the above treatments.

Then the clinical trials... these are options....Clinical Trial Options: 

(1) Current osteosarcoma trial: Dogs will undergo preliminary staging tests including initial consultation, physical examination, lab work, thoracic radiographs. All…

…treatments, immunotherapy treatments and follow-up visits after completion must be performed at HopeVS. Dogs will remain in the study until osteosarcoma metastasis is documented.

This study is partially funded by the Sponsor to help offset the costs. Owners are responsible for the costs initial…

… lab work and chest x-rays in excess of those covered by the study, and treatment of any adverse events.

(2) We are now enrolling dogs with osteosarcoma who have undergone amputation and chemotherapy in a study of the Canine Osteosarcoma Vaccine, Live Listeria Vector (COV-LLV), a conditionally

…Abby did not do chemo. I did the six rounds of pallative radiation for her nasal cancer. Talked about doing oral chemo (palladia) but since nasal Osteosarcoma is so rare the cancer vets werent even sure it would work. I started her on holistic treatments and figured i would just love her and make her…

…give me another month or two with her. That was 8 months ago and she is kicking ass! The vet said he was 99% sure her leg tumor was a different Osteosarcoma or fibrosarcoma. Since i wasnt pursuing any treatment it didnt make sense to find out wHat is was. 

…after the biopsy came back positive. But he also said he thought as advances are made with radiation therapy that it would be the future of treating osteosarcoma. But, as he said, "we're not there yet." 

Just what I was told, FWIW.