Male Breast Tumors
Male cat with mammory tumors?
My male cat has breast tumors. We just found out at the vets office yesterday. They’re running bloodwork to make sure he’s healthy enough for surgery to remove the tumors and test for malignancy.
My question is:
Has anyone else out there had a cat undergo this sort of surgery? We are worried about his chances of survival and the quality of the remainder of his life. The vet really couldn’t answer for how long he’ll have to live, because they don’t yet know if the tumors are malignant.
My husband and I are not sure we would want him to go through an agonizing mastectomy surgery when his life may not be extended by much longer anyway.
Does anyone have any insight?
We just want to make sure he has a good quality of life for whatever time he has left.
Will the vet be able to tell if the tumors are malignant before the surgery? That would give you more information for making a decision. Did the vet do x-rays to see if there has been any spread internally?
I work at a vet hospital. I haven’t seen any cases of mammary tumors in a cat in the six years I’ve been there, but there was a 9-year-old lab (dog) with cancer in two of her mammaries. The vet removed all her mammary glands, and she lived another four years, which is about the normal lifespan of a lab. The cancer never recurred.
The surgery is not agonizing, by the way. The mammary glands are outside the body wall, above the muscle layer. The cat should have no more pain from removal of all of them that a female cat has from a spay.
If he were my cat, I would go ahead with the surgery unless the tumors were malignant and had already spread to his lungs or elsewhere internally.
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