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Cancerous tumor, full tail amputation, recovery?
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[QUOTE="Lilith86, post: 1992393, member: 81145"] Hi Tracie! He is doing well otherwise. Living a totally normal beardie life of eating, running around, etc... Which is why this is such an agonizing decision. The only issue he's having is that damage to the tail tip, the spindle cell cancer growing back so quick, and he's been a little constipated lately (constipation is solved with baths and oral lactulose milk thistle (?) supplement that the vet gave us). I'm not sure what other vet I could go to for a second opinion. There is one other that I know of near me who is certified for avian/ exotics. Maybe I will call him and see if he would be willing to take a look at Agni's case. But I know he's very busy and hard to get a hold of. But I will try. BTW I live in Maryland (USA), and the main vet I am seeing is Dr. Nielsen from Stahl Exotics in Fairfax Virginia. I'm from Columbia, MD. The other vet I'm going to try to get a hold of is Dr. Rhody at Lakeside Vet Center in Laurel, MD. He saw my previous beardie, Osiris, who died of metastatic carcinomas/ sarcomas that spread undetected in his torso. I think part of me is trying to save Agni from the same fate. I know the tail amputation won't by any means guarantee that we got all the tumor cells out, but since this cancer usually just grows locally and doesn't often shear off into the blood or lymph system to spread further, we have a possibility of removing the problem entirely. And with how quickly this thing is growing, I fear that if it *did* spread to his torso it would become very bad for Agni very quickly. I don't know guys. Ugh.... I feel like there's a line I'm trying to walk between good preventative medicine and just doing too much. I know there is another option to just leave everything alone and see how long he can have a good quality of life for, even if it turns out to be only a short time. I wish I had access to some case studies about beardie recovery from high tail amputation, something that discussed complications and failure rates, so I wouldn't feel like I'm taking a shot in the dark with this surgery. Argh! [/QUOTE]
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