It’s Dr. Sue Cancer Vet! Dr. Lisa and Richie have a great discussion with her about how cancer is not a death sentence and how you can catch it early.
Dr Sue spoke with Steve Dale about what might be the most common cancer in dogs, lymphoma.
Learn more about Dr Sue's early cancer detection program at WhyWaitAspirate.com
On The Pet Cancer Vet Dr Sue Ettinger takes pre-arranged calls from pet owners with a dog or cat with cancer to give information, support and hope. Click here to listen on The Radio Pet Lady Network.
💯 Belle’s family did the right thing. They noticed she was limping and quickly took her to the vet for X-rays.
😊They also thankfully got her pet insurance as a puppy.
🦴 Remember that if you have a large or giant breed dog with lameness and swelling on a limb, take your dog to a vet for X-rays as soon as possible because they are at increased risk for osteosarcoma. Early diagnosis is so important!
☢️ Like Belle’s veterinarian, your vet will take X-rays which often confirm the suspicion for osteosarcoma, the most common primary bone cancer.
👩⚕️Today, when I met sweet Belle, I ran blood work, did 3 view chest X-rays to check for metastasis spread, and got new limb X-rays to double check about whether she is a candidate for limb spare surgery.
🦴 Her tumor is in a location (distal radius) where we can consider limb-spare surgery instead of amputation. And the awesome surgeon where I work at does them. Then we follow surgery with chemotherapy with me.
�🔹There are lots of options for osteosarcoma so check out
🦴all my Facebook posts this month on osteosarcoma
🦴 my YouTube Vlogs on amputation and new vlogs coming out this week and next on osteosarcoma - subscribe so you don’t miss them
🦴 and please join my Live Q&A on Facebook Wednesday at 9 pm EST
@ VCA Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center
📅 last week there were
✈️ 4 flights
👩🏫 2 conferences
🌆 2 cities
👨👩👦👦 With a trip back home in between to see my sons’ spring concert
🌎5000 miles flown
🎤14 talks given
🤝 I met 100s of new colleagues and saw my speaker friends (who are my family in the road)
😊 And hopefully inspired some vet professionals to #whywaitaspirate and #kickcancersbutt
👩⚕️ This week I am back to clinics to see my patients and hopefully kick cancers butt myself 💙
@ Tampa Convention Center
🔹Osteosarcoma Spotlight: Diagnostics 🔹
🔬Cytology, or looking at the cells aspirated from a tumor, can be one of the diagnostic tests used for a pet with suspected osteosarcoma. It is not as definitive as some of the more invasive tests, but a few cells from a fine needle aspirate can be enough for veterinarians and cancer specialists to help distinguish malignant vs non-malignant tumors.
🔬The accuracy rate for obtaining an osteosarcoma diagnosis on cytology is about 70-85%, but other tests may be needed to confirm.
#whywaitaspirate
