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Hello,
Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. Thank you. Kate |
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On Sep 8, 9:01*pm, kate wrote:
Hello, Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. *The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. *Thank you. Kate Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Kate |
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, kate wrote: Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Your veterinarian is your best resource. I tried Googling this type of cancer, but managed to crash my computer in the process, so I'm not doing that again! I wish you luck. Accepting that some conditions are fatal is a hard pill to swallow. What did the vet recommend? I assume adequate margins were achieved? Does the vet think chemo or radiation is warranted/desirable/helpful? -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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kate wrote:
On Sep 8, 9:01 pm, kate wrote: Hello, Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. Thank you. Kate Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Kate I'm sorry to hear about your dog; it's always hard when you get this kind of diagnosis. My GSD was diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma at 7.5 and lived another 3.5 years, with surgery, chemo and radiation. The treatments aren't as hard on dogs as they are on humans; they use lower doses/body weight. But at the time we lived 20 minutes away from a specialist vet hospital, which had an excellent oncologist on staff. I don't know how we would have proceeded if we'd lived far from a treatment facility. Your dog's age is a factor, too. If Dylan had been 11 at diagnosis, would we have opted to keep her comfortable but not treat as aggressively? Again, I don't know, but I think that's likely. I think your best bet is to have a frank discussion with your vet about your options, and to do some research yourself. If you google on both "lingual haemangiosarcoma" and "lingual hemangiosarcoma" you will find quite a few articles. (The second one is the American spelling of hemangiosarcoma.) I know it's tough, and I hope you find some answers. FurPaw -- The plural of anecdote is not proof. To reply, unleash the dog. |
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"kate" wrote in message ... On Sep 8, 9:01 pm, kate wrote: Hello, Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. Thank you. Kate Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Kate ================================================== ========================== Back around 1980-1984 I was involved in a project that used hyperthermia to treat cancer. I developed part of the temperature sensing and controlling equipment that regulated the temperature of a patient's blood by means of a shunt in the femoral artery, which also had an external tube that connected to a stream of water that was adjusted to control the temperature. The patient was sedated during the process, and the body was essentially made to incur a fever that was maintained for a period of time, and then returned to normal. The cancer cells and tumors apparently did not tolerate heat as well as normal tissues, so they would die while healthy parts would survive. The research was being done by a Dr. Parks at the medical center in Jackson, MS, but I heard that he died and the project was abandoned, although there had been some remarkable remissions and cures with terminally ill patients. Of course, these were human patients, but when I was at the hospital testing the equipment, the doctor's daughter showed me a shunt that was installed in a dog. I found the following links using www.dogpile.com: http://www.labbies.com/cancer3.htm http://www.petcancercenter.org/Cance...erthermia.html http://hyperthermia.mc.duke.edu/stories.htm http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/cancer.htm I found the patent that was granted to Dr. Parks. It is 4,298,006, dated November 3, 1981, and the assignee was REAC (Research Against Cancer), which was the organization I worked with. A direct link is: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/4,298,006 Or just go to http://patft.uspto.gov/ and search on hyperthermia for other patents. Maybe you will find a research hospital in your area that is working on this method. There were some rumors that this very promising form of treatment was suppressed because of pressure from big drug companies who are making lots of money from their products, which they would lose if an inexpensive and effective alternative methods were discovered and used. That would be a terrible breach of ethics for the medical profession, but the drug companies may not have the same goals as doctors who truly want to cure their patients, rather than make money on extended and expensive treatments. I wish you the best of luck with your dog's condition. My dog Muttley looks like he may have some Mastiff heritage, and I have heard a lot of good things about them. I met someone who used to breed Bull Mastiffs, and he remarked how much Muttley looked like some of his dogs, except he does not have the characteristic wrinked face, and he is not as large as the average Mastiff. www.smart.net/~pstech/Muttley Paul and Muttley |
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On Sep 11, 11:01*pm, Janet Boss
wrote: In article , *kate wrote: Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. *We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Your veterinarian is your best resource. *I tried Googling this type of cancer, but managed to crash my computer in the process, so I'm not doing that again! I wish you luck. *Accepting that some conditions are fatal is a hard pill to swallow. *What did the vet recommend? *I assume adequate margins were achieved? *Does the vet think chemo or radiation is warranted/desirable/helpful? -- Janet Bosswww.bestfriendsdogobedience.com No the vet basically said we got it all with the tongue surgery and off you go!!! We can't have chemo where we live. We would have to fly him to Brisbane 1600 kilometres away. |
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On Sep 13, 12:16*am, FurPaw wrote:
kate wrote: On Sep 8, 9:01 pm, kate wrote: Hello, Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. *The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. *Thank you. Kate Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. *We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Kate I'm sorry to hear about your dog; it's always hard when you get this kind of diagnosis. *My GSD was diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma at 7.5 and lived another 3.5 years, with surgery, chemo and radiation. *The treatments aren't as hard on dogs as they are on humans; they use lower doses/body weight. *But at the time we lived 20 minutes away from a specialist vet hospital, which had an excellent oncologist on staff. *I don't know how we would have proceeded if we'd lived far from a treatment facility. Your dog's age is a factor, too. *If Dylan had been 11 at diagnosis, would we have opted to keep her comfortable but not treat as aggressively? *Again, I don't know, but I think that's likely. I think your best bet is to have a frank discussion with your vet about your options, and to do some research yourself. *If you google on both "lingual haemangiosarcoma" and "lingual hemangiosarcoma" you will find quite a few articles. *(The second one is the American spelling of hemangiosarcoma.) I know it's tough, and I hope you find some answers. FurPaw -- The plural of anecdote is not proof. To reply, unleash the dog.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thankyou for your answer. Yes I have since googled and found some websites. |
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On Sep 13, 6:15*am, "Paul E. Schoen" wrote:
"kate" wrote in message ... On Sep 8, 9:01 pm, kate wrote: Hello, Our beautiful 11year old Mastiff cross has been diagnosed with Lingual Haemangiosarcoma. It appeared as a tumour on his tongue of which he has had a piece removed. The pathology results proved the tumour was the primary, not a secondary as first suspected by the vet. Apparently he would still have the cancer cells floating around in his blood, but a blood test won't show anything until it is too late. I was wondering if any of you may have an idea of how we could purify his blood, to slow down/kill the cancer??? We live in Cairns Australia and only have limited resources available. For example an animal would have to fly to Brisbane to have Chemotherapy. We don't want him to suffer, but thought that you may know of some new medication that could prolong his life while still giving him quality. I must say since he has had the tumour removed he has had a new outlook on life and is quite energetic and happy. I found this website very helpful when he was diagnosed with an auto immune disease 2 years ago. This may have been when he contracted the cancer?? I look forward to a reply. Thank you. Kate Does anyone have a solution or an idea of anything we can do. *We are desperate to keep our beloved boy going. It has come as such a sudden shock. Kate ================================================== =========================*= Back around 1980-1984 I was involved in a project that used hyperthermia to treat cancer. I developed part of the temperature sensing and controlling equipment that regulated the temperature of a patient's blood by means of a shunt in the femoral artery, which also had an external tube that connected to a stream of water that was adjusted to control the temperature. The patient was sedated during the process, and the body was essentially made to incur a fever that was maintained for a period of time, and then returned to normal. The cancer cells and tumors apparently did not tolerate heat as well as normal tissues, so they would die while healthy parts would survive. The research was being done by a Dr. Parks at the medical center in Jackson, MS, but I heard that he died and the project was abandoned, although there had been some remarkable remissions and cures with terminally ill patients. Of course, these were human patients, but when I was at the hospital testing the equipment, the doctor's daughter showed me a shunt that was installed in a dog. I found the following links usingwww..dogpile.com: http://www.labbies.com/cancer3.htmht...org/cancer.htm I found the patent that was granted to Dr. Parks. It is 4,298,006, dated November 3, 1981, and the assignee was REAC (Research Against Cancer), which was the organization I worked with. A direct link is:http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...ct2=HITOFF&d=P... Or just go tohttp://patft.uspto.gov/and search on hyperthermia for other patents. Maybe you will find a research hospital in your area that is working on this method. There were some rumors that this very promising form of treatment was suppressed because of pressure from big drug companies who are making lots of money from their products, which they would lose if an inexpensive and effective alternative methods were discovered and used. That would be a terrible breach of ethics for the medical profession, but the drug companies may not have the same goals as doctors who truly want to cure their patients, rather than make money on extended and expensive treatments. I wish you the best of luck with your dog's condition. My dog Muttley looks like he may have some Mastiff heritage, and I have heard a lot of good things about them. I met someone who used to breed Bull Mastiffs, and he remarked how much Muttley looked like some of his dogs, except he does not have the characteristic wrinked face, and he is not as large as the average Mastiff. www.smart.net/~pstech/Muttley Paul and Muttley- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thank you for your reply Paul, Yes they are the best dogs. Our Samson sound like Muttley, not so big and not the wrinkley face. He is so strong, yet so incredibly gentle and understanding. I will check out those websites. Thanks so much. Kate |
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