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>Hi everyone, well I got my Bria into the vet and it is not good news.
>He aspirated the swelling to see if anything would come out and the
>needle just filled with blood.  I guess this is some type of cancer he
>said and said that there is not much we can do for her other than to not
>let her suffer.
 
Dear X:
 
This isn't adding up - a needle full of blood from a rapid swelling is
not a bad thing - it could be a hematoma, a mucocele from a ruptured
salivary gland, or something else.  Cancer is usually a solid mass, and
there is very little blood.  I'd ask the vet what they saw under the
microscope that led to a diagnosis of "cancer".
 
What about excising the mass and getting a pathologist to look at it...
 
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 4049]