Rosco the bulldog
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- Jan 3, 2020
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Hello all I am new to the forum and I am looking for some opinions about weather or not I should pursue chemotherapy for my 5 year old bulldog. My oncologist says that it is not necessary but that if we want to treat the cancer aggressively that they feel it will help. He had a subcutaneous mast cell tumor. The tumor was surgically removed with good margins and they also removed the local lymphnode which showed no signs of mast cells in it. Also he had a abdominal ultrasound done which came back with no obvious evidence of tourmors or spread. The problem is his tumor had multinuculer cells and his mitotic index was 4 which is boarder line for a low grade to high grade tumor. Also we were informed this cancer is very rare so there has not been alot of studies or numbers for survival times.