Welcome to Our Dog Cancer Forum

Canine Melanoma is a Terrible and Aggressive Disease 
It's wonderful to be able to share our story here to people who understand the close bond that develops with a pet and why we go to such lengths and expense ...

Lost My Boxer to Liver Cancer 
I lost my 8 year old Boxer (Madison) on July 8, 2010.

In January this year, I found out that my dog's brother had died of liver cancer so I had been ...

My Dog Billy Had Brain Tumor 
Billy was a real mutt but we loved him. Just before Christmas I came home from work and Billy was sitting there. He did not acknowledge me which was very ...

My Dog has Thyroid Cancer 
My precious Bourbon was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and heartworm a month ago. We are visiting the oncologist tomorrow since we had to get her liver ...

My Golden Retriever has Melanoma 
My Macgregor is a beautiful 5 yr old golden retriever. He loves to run outside & play. He's the best dog I've ever had.

We thought he pulled or bruised ...

My 7 year old Great Dane has Cancer 
Got the phone call yesterday....my adorable great dane has fatal cancer.

Three weeks ago we noticed some bumps on her neck and inside her legs. They ...

Bracken`s story 
Thirty three months ago, I was running with my adopted brother Mac! We were having such fun (I like to run). But then suddenly on cornering it happened!...

My Lab has Mast Cell Tumors 
My dog Duke an English born Lab has had skin allergies since we moved to NC 7 years ago. He is now 10.5 years old and has many nasty Mast Cell Tumors [probably ...

My Dog was diagnosed with Transitional Cell Carcinoma 
2.5 years ago, my loving and faithful canine companion, Sable, was diagnosed with Transitional Cell Carcinoma, or Bladder Cancer. At the time, she was ...

Lomustine Chemotherapy for My Dog 
My baby Nix who is ony 8 years old, was playing ball in the garden when her eye suddenly was weeping & looked like it was coming out of its socket. She ...

Had to put German Shepherd down Unexpectedly 
Can't believe it, i wrote here a little back that Max our silky terrier was diagnosed with liver and spleen cancer. He is doing ok, holding on, but still ...

Still Missing Jake 
Jake was my family's 9 year old Sheltie Collie. We had him for 6 years. He passed away Feb. 21,2010.

It all started with a car ride to the store on ...

My Dog Has Just Been Diagnosed with Osteosarcoma 
Conan is a 9yo Lab/Rott and he has just been diagnosed with osteosarcoma.

About 2 weeks ago, I noticed Conan's front leg was swollen above his ankle ...

Gracie the Boxer has Lymphoma 
I am new to this...I just took my 8 year old boxer Gracie to the vet last Friday due to swelling in her lymph nodes. They ran a bunch of tests - X-rays,...

My American Pit Bull Terrier has Mast Cell tumors 
Four years ago I brought Pauly to the vet about a lump on his face in the cheek area. She said it was nothing to worry about. Evidently, she was fresh ...

My Dog Princess Has Bone Cancer 
Princess is 14 years old and has bone cancer. At the present time she is unable to walk and the cancer has metastasized to other organs. 10 years ago ...

Lost My Dog to a Brain Tumour 
I am sorry to say that my other dog Ben has had to be put to sleep tonight; he developed a tumor on the brain.

It came on suddenly as he was starting ...

Mini Schnauzer with liver disease 
Mitzie is a 6 year old mini schnauzer.

In February we took Mitzie to the vet because of some bloody stools. Hemoglobin and Hematocrit came back very ...

My Poor Australian Cattledog Sydney Has Liver Cancer 
We all must be here looking for comfort or knowledge. It looks as though our sweet and often intense 13 yo Australian Cattledog, Sydney, has liver cancer....

Anal Gland Cancer 
Winston is nine years old, and was just recently diagnosed with anal cancer. The vet(s) have said it is too far along to do 'anything'. However, I am ...

Max has been diagnosed with liver & spleen cancer 
Max is a silkie terrier I rescued from a back yard when he was just 1 year old. We live in NE, Pa. and you know how cold our winters are. There he was,...

Cooper diagnosed with liver cancer 
Cooper is our 12 year old Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier and he was just diagnosed with liver cancer.

Cooper is jaundiced and his urine is dark yellow ...

My chihuahua was just diagnosed with lymphoma 
My chihuahua was just diagnosed with lymphoma. She is only five! Now what? I have started her on grapefruit seed extract and astragalus root. She is on ...

Italian Greyhound just diag. with some sort of tumor 
I am at a total loss. The love of my life, Cooper (Italian Greyhound) was just diagnosed yesterday with some type of cancer. They are not 100% sure what ...

Dog Has Blood in Urine 
After 2 urine samples, (blood in urine) my vet rules out kidney stones, (no shards) and an infection. She said it could be a. bladder cancer or b. a kidney ...

My Black Lab has Rare Liver Cancer 
My dog Mooshie, a black lab about 12 or 13 (got him from the shelter), was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer about 2 years ago though he shows no symptoms ...

Lost my baby to liver cancer 
My lil' Reno Casino, our 3 pound, 12 year-old Pomeranian just passed away Feb. 1 of liver cancer. It was a very brutal thing to go through.

About 2 ...

Mammary Cancer in my Lab 
My 10 year lab/golden retriever mix Molly underwent a lumpectomy of a mammary tumor today. The vet is sending the tumor to a pathologist, and I am very ...

Bozita 
Bozita is the most amazing dog...a best friend, and always there for me when the world has been tough. She is a Lhasa/Bichon mix...fluffy cream colored,...

The Cancer came back 
My Maggie was diagnoised with Thyroid Cancer 2 years ago. We had surgery, radiation and Chemo. This gave her two more wonderful years to chase her ball....

My 9 yr old lab has cancer..found out today 
Last week my 9 yrs old yellow lab would not eat his food and he had trouble sitting down and laying down. Took him to the Vet on Monday and was told to ...

My Bella Has Been Diagnosed with Throat Cancer 
Hi All,

I am at that crossroads. Last Friday my Bella was diagnosed with throat cancer, we are still trying to figure out what type. Meanwhile, I ...

Homemade Food and Cancer 
My 9 year old lab fell over one day while on a walk. She got right back up so I didn't think much of it. Then she started acting strangely. She would ...

Heartbroken 
2 weeks ago, I was told my 9 year old Boxer, Knuckles, sure looks good for a senior. 3 days after that he saw a squirrel 10 feet in front of him and seemed ...

Cassy and herTumor 
I think I am trying to find solace in the fact that my dog had a large tumor that was attached near the windpipe and I feel I could have done more. But ...

Afraid of the Worst Happening 
We have a 12-year-old spitz mix (Minnie Pearl). She was a gift from my husband. He found her in the paper. She was 9 months old, had been abused and left ...

My Scottish Terrier Has Lung Cancer 
My 6 1/2 year old scottish terrier has been diagnosed with lung cancer. The x-rays showed 2 maybe 3 tumors on one side of his body. We took him to the ...

Pomeranian Breast Cancer 
My 3 years old pomeranian may have breast cancer. I have Essiac in the house because I have been taking it for 10 years for Non-Hogkin's Lymphoma. I ...

Max 
Max is my baby. He is also known as "the Boss" because he likes to boss everyone around. I love him so much and give him hugs and kisses on his big fat ...

Sad and Confused in Georgia 
Our 13-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer was just discovered to have thyroid follicular carcinomas. They removed the tumor on Thursday and called today ...

We will always Love you Nicholas 
I am sorry to hear about everyone's story on this site.

My Sheltie Nicholas, 6.5 years old, suffered from a seizure on September 2, 2009. And then ...

Monet was just diagnosed with a liver tumor 
We got her when she was just 8 weeks old. There were 5 puppies and all of them were playing except for her and she was sitting at the fence looking at ...

Our dog just diagnosed with hermangiosarcoma 
Our beloved Golden Retriever had a splenectomy for a ruptured tumor on her spleen and has been diagnosed with hermangiosarcoma. We have gotten xrays (normal ...

Lost Loving Lexi 
Ten short years ago, something truly majestic came into our family life. "Lexi". My wife fell deeply in love with a boxer we traveled so far to see. True ...

Our 12 year old princess has liver cancer 
Hi all,

Our baby girl who will be 12 years old 11/03/09 was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer 10/02/09. The wind was taken out of our lungs. She ...

Daisy 
Daisy is a beautiful, loving, fun loving boxer. She will be 9 years old this June. She has brought so much love and campaionship in my life since she came ...

My 13 yo Baby Girl has Cancer 
Hi all,

I was given the news that my eldest dog Lady (13) has high calcium in her blood indicating that she has cancer on 9/29/09 and she has days to ...

Missing my Dog Spanky 
I just put my Cocker Spaniel down after 9.5 years of a great companion.

My dog had mild seizures several years ago only twice. I did not think anymore ...

Emma's Lymphosarcoma 
Emma is my heart dog, my dog of a lifetime!! I have 5 other dog's (all are Border Collies) but Emma is super special, coming into my life after losing ...

Our Italian Greyhound has skin cancer 
About 6 months ago we noticed that "Sassy" had a few small red blister-like spots on her stomach. They appeared to be full of blood. Thinking that they ...

Mechelle 
I have a Shih Tzu that is 10 yrs old. About one year ago he developed this horrible horrible odor in his mouth with dreen drool. We have tried all kinds ...

Just coming to terms with diagnsis of lymphoma 
My 11 years old English Springer has just been diagnosed with Lymphoma and we have a week to decide whether to treat with chemo or not.

My Sweet little Chloe is in the late stages of Liver Cancer 
Hi,

Twelve months ago my 11 year old maltese (Chloe) developed a lump in her tummy so I took her to the vets to see what it was. She was operated on ...

My Sweetpea has Thyroid Cancer 
Today I got the terrible results - We found a lump in her neck 3 weeks ago and after many test we found out it was thyroid cancer. Our surgeon completely ...

15 yr old lab with oral melanoma - help 
Here I go again....5 yrs ago lost my Jack Russell to Hemangiosarcoma after cancer treatments....now I have a white female lab just diagnosed with oral ...

My Sweet Little Gracie 
I have the sweetest dog in the world. She is a 10 year old black lab named Gracie. Three weeks ago I found blood in my bathroom on the rug and didn't ...

Battling the Big C :( 
Hi guys,

Just found this website - which has given me something to pro-actively do/try (vitamins/supplements) etc.

My poor baby, Mia, a 2 year old ...

From One Cancer To The Next! West Aussie Query 
Can someone please help me?

Last year I had my 10 year old "Lucky", treated for lumps along the mammary line and we believed that the Cancer had been ...

Fibrosarcoma in 10 year old male Husky 
Stoli my rescued blue-eyed red boy was diagnosed with fibrosarcoma almost a year ago. Although his tumor on his right rear knee has grown from the size ...

My Precious Yorkie has been diagnosed with mediastinal lymphoma 
On 3/12/09, my Yorkie, Precious, was diagnosed with mediastinal lymphoma and was started on chemo with a modified Madison Wisconsin protocol. On 4/14/09 ...

My Dog's Just Been Diagnosed with Lymphosarcoma 
My dog (Blue) 7 yrs old in July, has just been diagnosed with Lymphosarcoma. I am at a loss. I have been reading up on this specific cancer. He is a Catahoula ...

Malamutt Snowball's Fight against Lung Cancer 
Snowball is a 2.5-yr-old female malamute. She developed an annoying cough. After X-Rays the doctor's diagnosed lung cancer. Snowball was given a week ...

my best mate TYSON 
BORN 20.01.1998. I have to have my dog put down tomorrow, 3.04.09 which is killing me. He is 11 years old, great dane X setter, and I have had him since ...

My Toy Poodle Molly has Liver Tumor 
Molly, my ten year old toy poodle was diagnosed with 6.7 cm primary liver tumor. Her vet said whether or not it is malignant is not really important because ...

Pug with Mast Cell Tumor 
My 7 year old male fawn pug has recently been recently diagnosed with a grade 2 mast cell tumor, and aside from monitoring his skin, does anyone have any ...

How to Tell My Son It's Time to Put Our Dog to Sleep? 
My dog has numerous symptoms of multiple brain tumors. He paces from room to room until you shut him in and he eventually realises he can't get through ...

Border Collie with Large Fibrosarcoma  Not rated yet
Bingo, our 12 1/2 year old Border Collie, was just diagnosed with a rapidly growing fibrosarcoma on his bottom left jaw.

Our goal is to keep him comfortable ...

My Shih Tzu Gabbie has Nasal Mucosa  Not rated yet
My 8 year old Shih Tzu, Gabbie, was just diagnosed with nasal mucosa - undifferentiated carcinoma of the nasal cavity - with a survival rate of 3 to 5 ...

Essiac Capsules and Our Labrador's Thyroid Cancer  Not rated yet
In November of 2009, our beloved yellow lab Tooty Anne was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. We were heart broken as she was not yet even 6 years old. The ...

My Dog Annie has Transittional Cell Carcinoma  Not rated yet
Annie is a puggle (part beagle part pug). I got her at a rescue 4 years ago. She is now 10 years old.

I noticed she was having trouble urinating, had ...

Bailey  Not rated yet
Hi.

My Chocolate Labrador, Bailey, is 5 months and 9 years old and has just been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour. He has been put on a course ...

My Dog Derek Has Melanoma  Not rated yet
Derek is 9 years old and he is a black cocker spaniel that my sister rescued from the animal hospital she worked at. Derek had been beaten and left paralyzed ...

Rocky has Lymphoma but we're going to fight!!  Not rated yet
I found out an hour ago my beloved 21 lb, shorty mix, sweetest dog in the world has Lymphoma.

I found the lumps in his neck. It went from 1 to 4 in ...

My Miniature Schnauzer has Prostate Cancer  Not rated yet
Eddie, my buddy, will be 10 years old on Sept 29th. He's a pure-bred Miniature Schnauzer. He has prostate cancer which has spread to the bladder. He ...

My Dog Jake has Abdominal Tumor  Not rated yet
Jake is our almost 11 year old Cocker/Springer mix and has been the light and joy of our life since he joined our family September of 1999.

He was diagnosed ...

My Beautiful Buddy Has Brain Tumor  Not rated yet
Yesterday morning I woke up to what I thought was my 9 yr. old Wheaton Terrier "Buddy" having a bad dream. I leaned over the bed to calm him and relized ...

My Dog has Mouth Cancer  Not rated yet
My dog Ted has just been to the vets on Wednesday 30 June 2010 as I found a lump in his mouth.

They said he had cancer and with him being aged 24 there ...

Spike has gone to puppy heaven  Not rated yet
I just recently (May 5th) lost my beloved Spike, a 10 year old golden retriever, to lymphosarcoma.
I took him to the vet as I felt lumps in his neck, the ...

Oral melanoma - Alaskan Malamute  Not rated yet
In November of 2009, we took our 10-year old Alaskan Malamute to the vet to take a look at a newly discovered dark colored cyst located just behind her ...

Undifferentiated Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia  Not rated yet
Hi,

I can hardly believe it. Last week my 14 year old toy poodle, Fifi, stopped eating. I took her to the vet and they thought she had pancreatitis ...

Great Pyrenese and Bone Cancer  Not rated yet
I am devastated. What I thought was just a sore leg only a month ago turned out to be bone cancer. I've researched all my options, even thought about ...

This may be it for my dog...  Not rated yet
Our dog is nearly 14 years old and has been battling cancer, quite well, I might add, for almost 2 years now.

We had a couple of scares, but I think ...

Parker the Beagle  Not rated yet
My Parker came into my life when I was 14 yrs old and had just lost my childhood Cocker Spaniel to an enlarged heart. Parker had bounced around 3 different ...

My Dachshund has been with Lung Tumor  Not rated yet
Cally - she is a 9 yr old Std L/H dachshund who has been diagnoised as having a tumour in the lung.

We only discovered this as she had developed a ...

Spindle Cell Sarcoma in Tibetan Terrier  Not rated yet
In March 2008 the vet thought the lump on Briggs' hip was probably malignant as it seemed 'fixed' and she thought it may well be inoperable. A biopsy ...

Desparately seeking advice  Not rated yet
hello, I have a most handsome 11yr old shihtzu, who has had lots of chronic ear and eye problems, on and off different types of antibotics, and was told ...

Beagle has Urinary Tumor  Not rated yet
Maggie (beagle) started dribbling her urine a few months ago but w/in last month, every few steps.

Many tests and scans later, we learned she has a ...

My Husky Has Liver Cancer  Not rated yet
Just found out my 13 yr. old Husky Cheyenne has liver cancer.

Yesterday she wasn't acting herself so I brought her to see the vet. He did blood work ...

My wonderful dog Kiwi and our fight for his life  Not rated yet
Kiwi is an 11 year old Shih Tzu puppie, or at least he acts like one! Today we found out he has Thyroid cancer and it is maglignant.

6 days ago I was ...

My Sunni was Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer  Not rated yet
Last August 2009 my girl was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The vet told us that even with surgery there wasn't much to be done to save her. Since she ...

Macroadenoma in My Boston Terrier  Not rated yet
My 7 year old Boston Terrier was diagnosed with a brain tumor and started radiation today. I have started a day-by-day blog because when he was diagnosed ...

Dog had Mouth Cancer  Not rated yet
I sold a house and bought a cheaper one on the other side of town to live a more frugal life. Since the new house Sheng my sweet 11 year old lhasa apso ...

My Dog Has Been Diagnosed with Lung Cancer  Not rated yet
My Australian Cattle Dog, Dundee, who is 13 years old, has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer (tumor in lung is the primary).

He has started ...

My Black Lab has Cancer  Not rated yet
I adopted a dog thru my boyfriend only to find out that this dog has cancer. The dog came from katrina and was found at a shelter and adopted.

I have ...

Cody Berchak  Not rated yet
Cody has been a wonderful companion to my sister. I don't think there has ever been a more wonderful dog then he. He liked everyone and everyone liked ...

My Dog Miss Coquette has Melanoma  Not rated yet
Miss Coquette is a stylish mixed breed dog of 13yrs. Yesterday she was diagnosed with melanoma and is scheduled for surgery on Monday. We are hoping ...

Sad in San Diego  Not rated yet
Our little boy Eli was just diagnosed this week with Prostate cancer which has also moved into his lymph nodes. We're not sure of Eli's age as he was a ...

Limb Swelling Weeks After Radiation Treatment  Not rated yet
Hello all,

My 12 YO German Shepherd/Husky mix Dixie has gone through her 5 palliative radiation treatments with flying colors. About 2 weeks afterwards,...