So last January he was diagnosed with a chromatophoroma malignant tumor. We had it removed twice but it came back. We didn’t want to do radiation at the tome because I didn’t know if he’d survive sedation. He’d been losing weight and nothing I could do would make him gain weight.
I went to see a different vet that I had finally found beciase the tumor had grown too close to his spine to be removed. He’s finally up to around 515 grams and his organs are working fine. We don’t know if it’s metastatised. They want to get a ct to see if it has to get a full body picture instead of an ultrasound but that’s expensive. They are talking about radiation being the only option but they’ve never done it on a beardie before. So my question here is has anyone had any experience with it or gone through it? What kind of side effects or alternate treatments have you done? I want to give him the best chance. It’s a spindle cell tumor but they don’t know if radiation would be effective because there isn’t much research on bearded dragons. Any advice or help would be great.
I went to see a different vet that I had finally found beciase the tumor had grown too close to his spine to be removed. He’s finally up to around 515 grams and his organs are working fine. We don’t know if it’s metastatised. They want to get a ct to see if it has to get a full body picture instead of an ultrasound but that’s expensive. They are talking about radiation being the only option but they’ve never done it on a beardie before. So my question here is has anyone had any experience with it or gone through it? What kind of side effects or alternate treatments have you done? I want to give him the best chance. It’s a spindle cell tumor but they don’t know if radiation would be effective because there isn’t much research on bearded dragons. Any advice or help would be great.