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In reply to the discussion: Now I am in that most difficult of places. [View all]milestogo
(16,829 posts)my regular vet (not where I live now) and an oncologist. He and a lump on his wrist/carpus and both told me that my dog had bone cancer. They had nothing to offer except euthanasia.
I drove to the UW vet school and they diagnosed him with a soft tissue tumor. It was NOT bone cancer, despite what I had been told by an oncologist.
He got into an experimental study at UW using canine interleukin2 which was injected into the tumor for ten weeks. The IL2 stimulated his immune system and the tumor disappeared. I took this as a sign from the universe to move to Madison. He was 7 at the time and he lived 8 more years.
So, I'm always a little skeptical. Sometimes vets give up and tell you its hopeless just because they don't know what to do. I think doctors so the same thing.