I know we are some of the newer cats on the forum, but like all of you, my cats are precious to me. You've all seen that my sig line includes one of my cats, Alix P. Curl. Her sister is equally dear to me, Ophelia...a cold brown mctabby Curl (alix is a very warm brown mctabby), and was diagnosed with a bone lesion 6 months ago. Blood work, multiple x-rays and two bone biopsies followed, along with over a month of antibiotics and multiple consultations with vet oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, the radiologist and more. The presumptive diagnosis as of two months ago was cancer and that by now it had likely metastasized (bone biopsies kept coming back negative for infection OR cancer, so we were still trying to get a firm diagnosis and thus began all the consultations). We chose to wait and see what happened and repeat the x-rays in two months, which was yesterday.
The lesion is filling in with new bone! We are still waiting for the radiologist's report, but our vet feels this is NOT cancer.
I am so happy we did not do the excise and bone graft that was one recommendation (and given a poor chance of succeding as the area to be grafted was so large), or amputate...which I would have done if we'd had a biopsy say cancer or if the final diagnosis of two months ago had come before they thought it must have spred if it was cancer.
Color us ecstatic!
The lesion is filling in with new bone! We are still waiting for the radiologist's report, but our vet feels this is NOT cancer.
I am so happy we did not do the excise and bone graft that was one recommendation (and given a poor chance of succeding as the area to be grafted was so large), or amputate...which I would have done if we'd had a biopsy say cancer or if the final diagnosis of two months ago had come before they thought it must have spred if it was cancer.
Color us ecstatic!