Hi, I recently rescued a stray female cat (the vet said she was >= 5yo) that turned out to have a ruptured tumor on her chest area.
The chest tumor is about 7 cm in length. The top 4cm and bottom 1 cm has ruptured, while the middle 3 cm looks like it could burst any day. She also had tumours growing from all over her bottom side, and also front leg armpits. The one on her right armpit has also ruptured.
I think the chest one is the main tumor, as it is the bigger and largest. The remaining ones didn't bulge and when ruptured the look like the skin is ripped apart, unlike the chest one where it looks like it bursting out.
The rontgent done on her shows no metastasis in the lung. And the vet suggest surgery to take the ruptured tumor and pray hope no recurrence happen or if it does, it won't be in weeks. I asked for biopsy to see if it's malignant but the vet said it can take 2 weeks - 1 month for a result because they had to send it to another city.
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Background:
The country I live at (3rd world country) doesn't have animal oncologist. And there definitely no treatment (chemotherapy) available.
I watched a cancer vet video that talks about feline mammary cancer (which I think is what she got). The vet said that 80% of cancer is malignant and if surgery is done, it must be a radical surgery, meaning, taking off all the mammary glands to prevent any chance of recurrence.
The vet that takes care of her personally against the idea of euthanasia and advised me to seek other vet if I decided to do so. But, they also noted that if surgery is done, closing (maybe they meant sewing up?) the area would be difficult.
Now she's currently at home (I've put her in inpatient care at the vet's place for almost 2 weeks before because the ruptured tumor was infected when I rescued her). Everyday I change clean up her wound with antiseptic soap (given by the vet), and then apply sulfadiazine silver on the wound before bandaging it up again. She always gets stressed afterwards, biting my hand if it came close to her (15cm away) even though I have no intention of touching her.
I feel bad seeing her like that. I can scrounge up the money needed for the surgery for this time, but will it be worth it if the vet themselves aren't that optimistic? Is it better to put her to sleep before all she feel is pain? She's still eating and poop/pee normally. She's thin, though.
Any advice on this? Or maybe an insight for those who have cared for such disease? This is my first time handling a case like this. Usually I only have rescues with flu, or lacerations injuries.
The chest tumor is about 7 cm in length. The top 4cm and bottom 1 cm has ruptured, while the middle 3 cm looks like it could burst any day. She also had tumours growing from all over her bottom side, and also front leg armpits. The one on her right armpit has also ruptured.
I think the chest one is the main tumor, as it is the bigger and largest. The remaining ones didn't bulge and when ruptured the look like the skin is ripped apart, unlike the chest one where it looks like it bursting out.
The rontgent done on her shows no metastasis in the lung. And the vet suggest surgery to take the ruptured tumor and pray hope no recurrence happen or if it does, it won't be in weeks. I asked for biopsy to see if it's malignant but the vet said it can take 2 weeks - 1 month for a result because they had to send it to another city.
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Background:
The country I live at (3rd world country) doesn't have animal oncologist. And there definitely no treatment (chemotherapy) available.
I watched a cancer vet video that talks about feline mammary cancer (which I think is what she got). The vet said that 80% of cancer is malignant and if surgery is done, it must be a radical surgery, meaning, taking off all the mammary glands to prevent any chance of recurrence.
The vet that takes care of her personally against the idea of euthanasia and advised me to seek other vet if I decided to do so. But, they also noted that if surgery is done, closing (maybe they meant sewing up?) the area would be difficult.
Now she's currently at home (I've put her in inpatient care at the vet's place for almost 2 weeks before because the ruptured tumor was infected when I rescued her). Everyday I change clean up her wound with antiseptic soap (given by the vet), and then apply sulfadiazine silver on the wound before bandaging it up again. She always gets stressed afterwards, biting my hand if it came close to her (15cm away) even though I have no intention of touching her.
I feel bad seeing her like that. I can scrounge up the money needed for the surgery for this time, but will it be worth it if the vet themselves aren't that optimistic? Is it better to put her to sleep before all she feel is pain? She's still eating and poop/pee normally. She's thin, though.
Any advice on this? Or maybe an insight for those who have cared for such disease? This is my first time handling a case like this. Usually I only have rescues with flu, or lacerations injuries.