while grooming one of our girls we found a big lump on one of her mammary glands, it feels hard but loose skin is normal she fine in her self.
Taking to the vets at 3 30 today. She is 10years old  we are so worried hope we do not loose her. i am so upset. Any advice would be welcome.

Sorry cant give any advice but do hope you have some helpful newes form the vet

This happened to my 9 year old this summer. She was actually booked in to be spayed and I found a large lump the very same morning -it had appeared very quickly. Showed it to the vet who said he could remove it at the same time so she ended up with two lots of surgery, two large incisions, and the vet said the lump looked very nasty indeed and had been attached to a teat that also had to be removed. Obviously we sent it off to find out what it was but again the vet expected it to be bad news. When we got the results it was benign! My girl is now doing absolutely fine, back to her normal self again and also back in the show ring again (after having got permission from the KC, of course.) So take heart -it doesn't have to be bad news!

As with Marianne we have just had the same with one of our oldies small hard lump in her mammary tissue and she also had a tumour on her uterus so she was spayed and the mammary lump removed at the same time both sent off and the results benign returned. Shes as fit as a fiddle and 11 years young.

Taking her in for surgery tomorrow morning it does not look very good. We hope and pray that it is benign.

If the lump is localised and has not metastasised to other areas then a partial mastectomy will be effective, and if she is healthy then GA shouldn't be an issue at her age.

Fortunately the only bitch that I have had with mammary tumours (I have owned 8) had them removed at pea size, they were not benign and the secodn appeared in the same spot the first had been 3 1/2 years earlier, though on the second occasion the glands linked to that lymph node were both removed.

Her death was unrelated to this several years later.

Hi one of my girls had a mammary tumour at age 9 years, it appeared quickly and grew very fast, she had a mammary strip and was speyed at the same time.  It was cancer but stage 1, she came throught the surgery very well and will be 12 years old in December this year not looking a day over 10.  So even if it is found to be cancer there is still hope.
Good luck

Jan and Penny

Vet has just rong it is not good news it was a very large lump they removed quite a lot also there was a lump growing on the other side which he removed. He is having it tested. She is staying there over night so they can keep a eye on her she is on a drip her name is Star. Vet thinks is cancer she may not have much longer to live.

Don't forget, this is almost exactly what my vet said about my girl and he was wrong! Fingers crossed!!

Hope he's wrong for you.

I've only had one bitch with a mammary tumour and made the decision not to do anything 3 years ago.  She's fine, happy and now 10 years old.  My thought process is, rightly or wrongly, if it's malignant then chances are it's not the only one and the result will be the same with or without an unnecessary operation.  If it's benign and not near any essential organs then it can stay there, again without an unnecessary operation.

My rising 12 Flatcoat had a huge mammary tumour removed six weeks ago. I had been aware of it for some time, but was reluctant to allow my vet to operate, however, it got to the point where my vet said she felt it really should come out. She had chest xray's first, to check for metastasis, seemed ok, so we went ahead. It was a very large mass and results from Cambridge, via Flatcoat Society Tumour survey, confirmed two types of malignancy.

We had a few hiccups with her recovery-during which, her tail continued to wag, in true Flatcoat fashion!    Hopefully, she will be with us for a while longer, enjoying good quality of life. Every day is a bonus. Dog's powers of recovery are amazing, so please don't lose hope.

Best wishes

My girl is home vet has sent the lump of to be tested. xrayed her chest all clear,said that if it had spread it would have gone to her chest  first.So things are looking more hopeful now  she is home just like her self cheeky. Will know early next week the results hopefull it will be clear. thank you all i do not know what i would have done without your help. I will let you all know the results.

glad she is home, fingers and paws crossed for good news next week x

So pleased for your that she is home and doing well.  It's a horrible time waiting for the results, I know for my girl they were delayed for some reason which made it even worse.  It's good news the chest Xray was clear - When my girl's results came back it was cancer but caught early, it hadn't spread and two years later there's no sign of it, fingers crossed, touch wood etc!!  I'm thinking of you, knowing exactly what you're going through, good luck and let us know as soon as poss.

Jan

Delighted to hear she is home and looking well. The fact that it isn't in the chest has got be be good news to some degree. Hope you get even better news and the Vets are wrong.

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Even if the tumour itself wasn't clear the fact that the x-ray shows no spread to her lungs the chances are good that removing the tumour will mean she will live her natural span without it reappearing.

my girl has cancer vet says that he got 90% out & she may be all clear. he left a massage on our phone. So i am going to ring him up in the morning.

Hi minnie mouses, I'm sorry to hear your girl has cancer, If the vet feels most if not all was taken out and it has not spread (fingers crossed) then your girl may be lucky!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, as I said before my oldest girl had cancer two years ago and is still going strong!!

Jan

Our girl had mammary tumour last year, found on the bottom 2 teets, they were removed with alot of surrounding tissue and the results showed that the cancer was contained within the areas removed. Apart from having a flat tummy in that area we have had no ill effects or reoccurance.
Hope your girl is now doing well

What type was it? Everything crossed here!

It was a adencarcinoma vet said that it was the aggressively type if it comes back it will be very aggressive.
At the moment she is all clear god willing it will stay clear.

I'm so sorry it wasn't better news -got everything crossed for your girl to be well, hopefully the vet got it all and she will stay fine.

I all took my girl back to vets to have her stitches removed. He put her on dmg to help assist the immune systerm fight any remaining cells that might still be their. She is on them for 6 months if it has not come back by them them he will take her off them. Them give her the all clear.