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Every time I search cat cancer on the internet, I'm not finding the answers to my questions. According to everything I've read, my cat shouldn't be alive. But she is.
When she was roughly 3, she was a stray that walked into my house, unspayed. The vet guessed between 2-6 but most likely 3 based on her teeth. When she was 10, she had mammary cancer. The vet did surgery and told me she probably wouldn't live long, mammary cancers were aggressive.
The cancer came back when she was 14. Again surgery was done, this time the vet took a lot of mammary tissue just in case. Or at least we assume the cancer came back. Based on my cat's medical history, the vet said that a biopsy was not really a needed expense.
She's now 16. Is the cancer likely to come back? Is it likely to take 4 years again, which could put her at a point where more surgery would be needless suffering? I can't find anything about extended lifespans and extended periods between reoccurence when it comes to mammary cancer.
When she was roughly 3, she was a stray that walked into my house, unspayed. The vet guessed between 2-6 but most likely 3 based on her teeth. When she was 10, she had mammary cancer. The vet did surgery and told me she probably wouldn't live long, mammary cancers were aggressive.
The cancer came back when she was 14. Again surgery was done, this time the vet took a lot of mammary tissue just in case. Or at least we assume the cancer came back. Based on my cat's medical history, the vet said that a biopsy was not really a needed expense.
She's now 16. Is the cancer likely to come back? Is it likely to take 4 years again, which could put her at a point where more surgery would be needless suffering? I can't find anything about extended lifespans and extended periods between reoccurence when it comes to mammary cancer.