Dog Cancer - Lymphoma - All What You Need To Know

Dog Cancer - Lymphoma - All What You Need To Know 

 What are the signs and symptoms that dog Guardian might see if their dog has lymphoma ??

 Lymphoma is a strange cancer and that lymphoma starts as a spread cancer it usually doesn't form a single bump .

In lymphoma many times it's discovered by the veterinarian during a physical exam where they feel the lymph nodes  "which can be located underneath the jaw or in front of the shoulders or on the legs or in the groin" are swollen and those feel like bumps underneath dog chin you can feel these bumps in the back legs or these types of things and these bumps can swell many times without the dog actually showing signs of illness that would be things like decreased appetite or vomiting or diarrhea or thirst changes and these types of signs so typically with lymphoma you'll see one or the other or both in other words swollen lymph nodes or some change in behavior that would let you know that your dog is not feeling well .

Treatment of Dog Cancer - Lymphoma: 

Lymphoma is a unique cancer in that it's systemic that it spreads throughout the body and it is one of those cancers where once your veterinarian has made the diagnosis, you have to get in to a specialist as quickly as possible because it's really scary in the sense of it is a pretty rapidly progressing cancer and without treatment you know most dogs only live on average a month on the flip side in my opinion it's one of the more treatable cancers in that treatment the basis of keene of treatment is chemotherapy dogs live well and they live longer with treatment and on average will live well over a year you know 13 or 14 months so it's a rapidly progressive cancer but in my opinion of very treatable cancer but it's one that you want to make a rapid decision and you want to get in and see a specialist sooner rather than later .

Lymphoma like other cancers should be treated by looking at the whole toolbox the entire array of treatments .

Lymphoma is not one where we use surgery often because the cancer cells are spread throughout the body they start in the lymphatics and they are moving around the body ,so we don't really have a mass to remove .

We also sometimes will use radiation from time to time .

Chemotherapy is the foundation of conventional treatment for lymphosarcoma and we must include to really get maximum survival advantage of, maximum life quality also diet ,and apoptogens which are substances that turn on cell suicide in cancer cells .

And the other full spectrum approaches which can really help us and which are outlined in the Dog Cancer Survival Guide.