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Discussion on SCC Tumor and treatment
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New Member:
catchall
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Posted on Monday, Dec 7, 2009 - 11:27 am:
My horse has a SCC tumor below his rectum and is about 1-1.5 inches on the exterior. My worry is the interior seems to be approximately 2"x6" and depth unknown. The vet want to surgically remove the tumor by cutting all off it out; including skin and I am not sure of this treatment. Are there an injection type therapies that is less invasive?
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, Dec 7, 2009 - 8:02 pm:
Welcome Jeff,
Though there are non-surgical treatments recommended in the article large lesions are best treated by surgical excision. Be sure you don't confuse the prognosis of sarcoids and SSC and surgery. For SCC and good size tumors surgery is almost always your best option. Does your veterinarian not believe he can close the wound following excision?
If you want a better idea of the extent of the lesion you might consider ultrasound.
DrO
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Member:
catchall
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Posted on Friday, Jan 29, 2010 - 12:47 pm:
I have attached the pathologist's report. Can you offer any further discussion on the risk for the cancer spreading internally or any further description of the cancer itself? It is difficult for me to understand and our vet did not provide an explanation of the pathology.
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Moderator:
DrO
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Posted on Friday, Jan 29, 2010 - 5:34 pm:
Hello Jeff, we are missing the attachment: is it an unusual format or bigger thean 64k? If not give it a try again. If it is can you cut and paste it into a txt document?
DrO
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Member:
catchall
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Posted on Monday, Feb 1, 2010 - 4:23 pm:
Try this one
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Member:
catchall
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Posted on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 - 2:38 pm:
I posted the pathology February 1st. Were you able to read it?
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Member:
scooter
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Posted on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 - 5:38 pm:
Jeff it comes up blank for me
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Moderator:
DrO
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Posted on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 - 6:34 pm:
I am sorry Jeff I thought you would be able to see it was not visible. It would appear you have uploaded a HTML devoid of any body content.
DrO
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