This case, makes understand that the only possible intervention it’s for well-being of the patient, we have to trust in medical opinion to decide when and how operate, because an aggressive treatment can be only cause of stress and suffering in the face of a short or none life expectancy; when it’s possible to proceed, instead, the life expectancy can be 1 or 2 years (more in some cases)
[7], we need to keep in mind that the cancer, today, is a chronic disease the patient can live with, like in human, also in veterinary field there are a lot of strategies, pharmacological with the use of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. usually they can be used together.
Surgery is the most effective therapy for animal cancer
In case of benign tumor, the therapy is the surgery, that allows to remove the totality of the tumoral cells.
When we have a malignant tumor, can be necessary to remove a big part of tissue around the mass, to guarantee an intervention that remove all the malignant cells.
One of the problems that we can see at this point, is the lack of tissue necessary to close the wound, this makes difficult the healing in short time and submits the animal to long convalescence, the risk is the necessity of more surgical operations for medical complications or dehiscence.
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The post-op
From now on, the procedure it’s almost the same in a surgical operation, we need to follow the veterinary’s recommendations to allow a rapid healing of the wound, like to limit the physical activity for the first 7/10 days, don’t change the diet, using an Elizabethan collar and following the instruction for drugs administration.