A tumor that bleeds has often been traumatized by the dog itself, bumped, or something like that....
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It's tough to say, and it's a very personal decision every owner has to make....
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Melanoma is melanocytes or pigment cells that have unchecked division rates, and they get masses....
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It is with many types of cancer. It depends on the type of cancer, but with certain tumors like mast cell tumors, we can remove them....
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Oh, for sure. We do many cancer surgeries, removing tumors, and that sometimes in and of itself can be curative....
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We do a lot of palliative therapy. We control nausea....
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A dog heart murmur is turbulent flow. The heart is just a big pump, so the heart should pump blood in one direction....
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What you would see is they will stop eating for days....
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After a few visits, we work to get a specific diagnosis to better understand how we're going to treat it and its prognosis....
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A dog tumor is an inappropriate proliferation of cells. A cell population goes unchecked. They can be tumors in the skin, under the skin....
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It depends on several things....
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If it is an enlarged chamber, we may put them on medication to help that heart squeeze better....
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It depends on the location of the cancer, so let's say I find a lump on your dog or your cat....
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I would say they can get most of the same types of cancers that humans get....
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That's hard to say because it depends on the type of tumor. I don't know that we have an answer for that....
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That's very individual. Surgery is pretty much the mainstay for many tumors. That would be the one you would choose....
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I can speak for the Animal Hospital of Statesville....
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We try for it not to be. Our rules are, we don't want anybody in pain. We don't want anybody sick, and we don't want anybody starving....
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So if your dog were ill, if they had an infectious disease like kennel cough, we would not accept them to be boarded because that's just not fair t...
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There again, it depends on the individual case. It depends on how aggressive or advanced the particular cancer is....