Good news–I think??? Not osteosarcoma like we thought, but still cancer. Good news: It can be slower progressing and often gotten rid of by amputation (which we did 2 weeks ago). Bad news: It doesn’t respond to chemo and usually originates in nasal passages and ribs. It’s a cartliage cancer, so doesn’t make sense that it originated in the center of a longbone.
The lymph nodes were negative for cancer, but reactive (normal considering they were reacting to the cancer nearby).
The concern is that his origin is in fact his nasal, he’s had a runny nose/sneezing for the last few weeks. And that it may have metastacized to the leg we removed. Today we took films of head and ribs. But Raven was squirming and I didn’t want to pay for sedation on 110#. He’s never needed it in the others, but he was having an anxiety attack after all he’s been through there. So, they aren’t the best shots. But from Tom’s perspective, he couldn’t see mets in the lungs. The nasal cavity looked clean. He feels that the bones look good in all shots, but that they weren’t the best films. So, I’ve sent the films to my friends at Auburn Univ vetmed to have the radiologist/oncologist look. If these are truly negative, I think we are done. Banking that it originated in the leg, is slow to metastacize, and we got it all. Although chrondro is a cartliage cancer, so we are baffled as to where it started?
Relieved, I think! We removed his drain today. And stitched his peasized hole closed (with no local, wide awake, Rambo-style, what a GOOD BOY). I can remove the stitches in one more week. 🙂
Congratulations on the good news! Hopefully Raven has kicked his cancer. I think we needed to hear something encouraging today with all the other sad news! Keep us posted. Nice work with the Rambo -style stitches Raven! You Rock!