07/04/2022
Piper finished Chemo! 🙌 Diagnosed w/a**l gland cancer (AGASACA) Jan 2020, remission Apr 2020, recurred Sep 2021, remission Apr 2022…
What is AGASACA? —Apocrine Gland A**l Sac Adenocarcinoma is a highly aggressive cancer in dogs. A tumor develops on the a**l glands & spreads quickly & often unnoticeably. It’s often caught late; already metastatic to lymph nodes or other organs.
Piper’s AGASACA was serendipitously found on imaging for an unrelated mammary tumor. PET scan to see if the mammary tumor had spread to before surgery found no signs of metastasis from the mammary tumor.
But— the scan showed cancer in lymph nodes at her hind end. Her DVMs did another re**al exam suspecting an a**l gland tumor & found a tiny BB sized tumor. As small as the tumor was— it had already spread to the sub-lumbar lymph nodes. And why this cancer’s often discovered at late stages.
successfully removed the mammary tumor, the a**l gland tumor & the cancerous lymph nodes. Piper’s original reason for seeing — the Mammary tumor turned out to be low grade & surgery was curative. While the AGASACA was a different story…
We wouldn’t have known Piper had AGASACA until much later but for the lucky happenstance that imaging for an unrelated cancer, discovered it.
We’re going to share more in a series of posts about , , oncology care, testing, , dog cancer diet, canine clinical trials, immunotherapies, cancer vaccines, targeted drug therapy, supplements & more.
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Sending Fur-hugs & Fur-love, 💙
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