Bone Cancer In Dogs

Question by James Albert: Which type of cancer is more common in dogs(specifically Labradors)? Benign or malignant, I’m assuming benign?
I really hope it’s benign.

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Answer by Denisedds
If it’s benign it is not cancer.

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Question by Wireco: What kind of cancer is very common in dogs?

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Answer by Latiesha
Leaukemia

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Question by Kasums: What is the most common cause of liver cancer in 6-7 year old dogs?

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Answer by Aduial
Most commonly it’s environmental.

Exposure to carcinogens, or cancer-causing chemicals, may increase the risk of cancer development. Many chemicals are not toxic until they are metabolized by the liver. The liver serves an important role in detoxifying many substances circulating in the body. However, some chemicals are made more toxic after they have been broken down by the liver. Examples of possible carcinogens include toxins produced by fungi that are sometimes associated with spoiled pet food, food additives, certain pesticides, dyes, plants and animal tissue. Viral infections have been associated with hepatic cancer in humans. This has not been shown in dogs.

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Question by nic222: Why are some forms of cancer more common in young people and others more common in old people?
I know cancer doesn’t discriminate when it comes to age,sex,race etc…but i have heard that certain cancers strike different age groups….why is this so??? why would cancers like lymphoma, leukemia or osteosarcoma mostly affect adolescents, as opposed to cancers like prostate cancer or colon cancer which usually affect people older than 50????

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Answer by oncogenomics
Acute leukemias, brain tumors, bone cancers, retinoblastomas are much more common in children primarily because they are developing. Note, the location of all of these are organs with rapidly dividing cells. Most of these cancers are associated with inherited genetic mutations. This is not a hard rule. Older people can get ALL, lymphomas and, osteosarcoma too. It’s just much more rare.

In older people, there is less active cell division. Older people usually accumulated mutations, reduced ability for cell repair and, weaker immune system. Most prostate cancers are very slow growing. In may cases, the patients will die of something else before the prostate cancer. There have been documented cases of colon cancer in the late teens and prostate cancer at age 27. Again, extremely rare.

As a whole, cancer does not discriminate. However, some ethnic groups are far more suspectible to certain cancers than others. Examples:
Ashkenazi Jews have a much higher incidence rate of breast cancer.
Certain Chinese have the highest rate of espogeheal cancer in the World.
Germ cell cancers can only occur in people with that sex organ. In other words, women cannot get prostate or testicular cancer. Men cannot get cervical, vaginal or, ovarian cancer.

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I brought my dog(Rotty/shephard mix) into my vet’s 8 months ago due to pain/stiffness in his left rear leg. There was a tiny lump on that leg. The vet’s did a exam and said it was just arthritis and gave him Rimadyl.

I also had them check his liver levels, because I heard older dogs get liver problems. His alkaline phosphate levels were high so I asked them if there were other tests to see why. They said, just come back in a month or 2 and we will re-check. 6 weeks later I we brought him back. His alkaline phosphate levels were even higher. So the vet did more tests on his liver, all came back fine. They claim they didn’t know why his alkaline phosphate levels were high!

Fast forward to recently, my dog has a huge lump on his left rear leg and he can’t walk on it, THIS TIME the vets due an x-ray, it’s osteosarcoma.

After 5 MINUTES OF RESEARCH ONLINE I find that high levels of alkaline phosphate is an indicator of both liver problems and BONE CANCER! However they didn’t think to connect the dot’s and check for bone cancer in his bad leg!!!!!! I should of NOT trusted the vets, who we paid a lot of money, and just researched his high alkaline phosphate levels when it first came up!

This nasty scumbag disease could of been treated early on before it got to painful for our dog! We did an amputation just recently to take away the pain. However there are new techniques such as a limb sparing procedure which could of saved his leg…when caught early.

Also his quality of life and lifespan improves when caught early. I already know, now, that pets don’t have a high survival rate with this disease even with chemo. However 2 years of life vs. 6 months of life IS a big difference to pets and their owners!

I am in shock, my not quite 6 yr old Doberman had to be put to sleep recently after being diagnosed with bone cancer just 3 weeks prior. It escalated so quickly and he was in such pain. Is this common?