Lymphosarcoma? - Page 4

Hexe, my dog had lymphosarcoma. Not sure why the oncologist and the vet who diagnosed him both referred to the disease as a leukemia, but they did. One was Ann Jeglum; he was treated using her protocol.

That is odd, Blitzen...this was several years back, right?  Maybe the field hadn't differentiated the two at that time, and considered them to be different manifestations of the same disorder?  In comparison to human oncology, veterinary oncology is still in its infancy to some degree, so it wouldn't surprise me if the three terms were used interchangably at some point.  The more we know, the more we learn what we really *don't* know after all, right?  :)

By definition, when lymphoma cells are present in the blood in significant number, the lymphoma has converted to a leukemia.

He was treated in 2001. Hopefully this won't be any of the above.

@schdiva......i agree essiac can work wonders & especially when there is no hope from doctors or vets.  however, some folks are not open to holistic & natural medicine.  i have been giving one of my old girls essiac for the past 3 months now.  she had some pretty awful mammary tumors that for some reason, escaped us.  when i discovered them, i got her in for surgery the next day.  it had gone into her lymph nodes as well ---groin area.  so they did some pretty extensive cutting there.  she has lost some control and her ass swings around when she gets in too much of a hurry, but there is no sign of any mammary tumors or enlarged lymph nodes.  she's going to be 11 in a couple of months, so because of her age, i felt this was the best route to go with her.  she will continue on the essiac for the rest of her days; however many that may be.

pjp

I talked to my vet's receptionist a little while ago.

Rasto is positive for lyme disease, but she said that they vet does not believe that the lyme is the cause of the lymph node swelling.
I though the biopsy results would be in tomorrow but the receptionist said 7-10 days. :(

Mike

Screw that, hit the dog with doxycycline, and then talk.

Oh, Sorry....we are doing that. (& hoping for some serious lymph node shrinkage) Shoulda said so I guess ;

Mike, I second beetree's comment. There's no way I'd accept a treatment plan of waiting to see what the pathologist comes back with, because if the problem is Lyme, that would be another week or better that the disease was left unchecked...and it can start doing some serious, and sometimes irreversible, damage in that time.

It's not going to hurt to treat Rasto for the Lyme result while waiting for the biopsy report--the antibiotic used won't interfere with anything should a lymphoma diagnosis come back, and if the LN activity IS from the Lyme, you should see the LNs begin to reduce in size after several days on the the medication. 

I'm really hoping that the path report comes back with normal LN, and getting Rasto started on antibiotics now starts showing positive response before that report even comes back.  



 


Edited to add:  Just saw your response, Mike, and....