Poll About The Cancer

[Guest myjazzy]

I have been reading lately of so many of our hounds getting osteo, and I'm wondering if the incidence of osteo in greys is large, or if it just seems that way. I would also like to know what the incidence of other types of cancer is. I've lost two greys to cancer, one to osteo and one to lymphoma, and I have four greys now and know that eventually I'll probably be dealing with this monster again.

 

It really breaks my heart everytime I hear one more of our beautiful hounds had succumbed to this disease.

 

I would also like to know how many hounds have beat this disease, but I ran out of poll questions.

 

 

[ripley488]

 

 

I have lost 7 and 5 had cancer.

 

Brody - Thyroid cancer & Osteo

Rachel - Thryoid cancer that spread to the lungs

Noah - Thyroid & Pancreatic

Motorcade - Osteo

Pecoe - Osteo

 

Helen died of Kidney disease

Bleu had Congestive Heart Failure

 

 

Jennifer Watkins

Shamrock Greyhound Placement

Louisville KY

[Guest manymanyhounds]

3 lost to cancer

 

Princess - osteo

Chip - mast cell

Ninja - liver cancer

 

Cancer sucks

 

 

[Guest lanielovesgreys]

We lost Schumi to prostate cancer. Aggressive and spread very very rapidly.

 

 

[RobinM]

Just diagnosed today. I can not believe I am part of this poll. Osteo.

[Bevd]

I've not voted because the options aren't quite right for me but I've had one Greyhound with cancer (fibrosarcoma) and I have a Deerhound who is an osteo survivor.

[Guest myjazzy]

Cancer sucks

 

I totally agree. I was hoping to see some people who haven't had to deal with cancer answer the poll, but no one has so far.

[Guest Grhndad]

We have lost 5, 4 to cancer.

 

Nancy and Max to Hemangoscarmo. Nancy was 13 and Max 13yr 8 mts.

Dart to Neoplasia Lymphoma age 12 yr 8 mts

Vinka Mass Cell age 12yr 10 mts.

[Guest GreysAndMoreGreys]

Every dog I have owned on my own has passed due to cancer

Willow- GSD, Lymphoma

Dave- Osteo

Weenie- Hemangio

Cassie- Osteo

Pup- Lymphoma

Momma- Hemangio

[Guest KennelMom]

We've lost 6, one was to cancer. Osteo.

 

DH lost a greyhound before we met to cancer, but I don't recall what kind it was. I know it wasn't osteo.

 

Something has to take all of us...I'm afraid cancer is a biggie for dogs and humans or any animal that lives to the end of it's expected life span.

[dante2zoe]

Cancer sucks

 

I totally agree. I was hoping to see some people who haven't had to deal with cancer answer the poll, but no one has so far.

 

 

I have two greys and have only had them for four years. I am afraid to answer that they haven't had cancer because I don't want to jinx them! However, in order to protect them, I do have a whippet who is a dermal hemangiosarcoma survivor.

[LakeshoreGreys]

Of the four we have lost, only one was diagnosed with cancer.

 

Bruiser - osteo. Found his tumor on a Sunday night, the size of a baseball, and by Thursday he was gone.

Sandy - her body gave out at 15. She had LP, a heart murmer, total incontinence, and lost the use of her back legs. Mind was still sharp as a tack though!

Beau - stroke. We sent him to the bridge a few days later, after the vets said he would never recover to the point that he could walk unassisted.

Cooney - his body also gave out. Vets felt that he was harboring a cancer somewhere, though. He could barely stand and walk at the end, and was in a lot of pain.

 

Wow, reading these it sounds like we put them through a lot of misery before sending them to the bridge, but I promise you that wasn't the case.

 

No matter the cause, it is never easy. Just writing this, I am tearing up...

[SIGreyLady]

I've lost 2 hounds to cancer: Chloe with Osteo and Fritz to Lymphoma. When he was first diagnosed I opted for chemo for him. It worked and he was in remission for a year. It then came back and the poor guy was so sick that I had to have him PTS. The oncologist assured me that it couldn't be cured. Fritz was my first ever hound - my heartdog - I miss him even today.

[Guest Javagirl]

Um, just an FYI for the results; you can't vote NO - because in order to submit, you have to choose 1 option from each section. If anyone does vote no then they ended up skewing the results anyway by randomly selecting an answer from each of the 2nd two boxes. You may want to add a box of N/A in each of the second boxes.

 

My previous dog died of cancer as well but it wasn't a greyhound, my family mutt growing up. It's devastating and leaves a hole in your heart.

Kristyn

[Guest Greensleeves]

Something has to take all of us...I'm afraid cancer is a biggie for dogs and humans or any animal that lives to the end of it's expected life span.

 

Unfortunately, she's right. I remember my grandfather's doctor telling my parents that some astounding percentage of people over a certain age would have *some* kind of cancer (like 70% of people over age 80--I'm making that up, but it was similar), just because if you live that long, there's that much more chance something will go wrong when your cells multiply.

 

We've lost one to cancer, but we don't know what kind. Since it took him 36 hours after diagnosis (and the diagnosis was b/c he went into shock from a burst tumor that bled out), it didn't seem relevant at that point. He was 12 years, 9 months.

[Saffron]

I think you would have very different results if this poll were on Everything Else Greyhound. When I looked at the poll results 100% had experience of cancer. That seems really scary, and I don't think that is necessarily representative. Those of us with sick greys come here. Those with healthy greys avoid H & M understandably.

 

Only one of my 3 has had cancer and she is the youngest. Pilgrim had nerve sheath sarcoma very near her spine at age 4. 2 surgeries (the second quite radical) got clean margins. She has had a couple of other suspicious lumps in the area removed, but she is still with us at age 6. Scarred up, but with us. Cancer free, and pretty darn healthy today!

 

My other two have not had cancer at ages 7 and 10 respectively. I voted, but want to warn you and everyone else that this poll is probably not representative of the usual grey profile on cancer.

 

 

[Guest MomoftheFuzzy]

Lost Gino in April 2006 to hemangiosarcoma... seemingly the most silent of killers.

 

[laurie]

We lost Beatrice to hemangiosarcoma.

One day she was perfectly well, the next day, she was gone.

[Guest MomoftheFuzzy]

We lost Beatrice to hemangiosarcoma.

One day she was perfectly well, the next day, she was gone.

 

Another sadly accurate way to describe hemangio... Hardly a chance to even say goodbye.

[Guest HeatherDemps]

I've only had 1 greyhound and he was diagnosed with cancer last December- osteo. We amputated and did chemo. I lost him at the end of August but the cancer had not come back so I think he beat the cancer because there had been no signs of it at his last recheck.

 

I think you would have very different results if this poll were on Everything Else Greyhound. When I looked at the poll results 100% had experience of cancer. That seems really scary, and I don't think that is necessarily representative. Those of us with sick greys come here. Those with healthy greys avoid H & M understandably.

 

I think this is true. When Dempsey was younger, I never came to this section unless he got the big D or something like that. After the cancer, this was pretty much the only section of GT I came to.

[Guest lanielovesgreys]

Wow, this poll is depressing. I had no idea the numbers were that high.

[Guest myjazzy]

Um, just an FYI for the results; you can't vote NO - because in order to submit, you have to choose 1 option from each section. If anyone does vote no then they ended up skewing the results anyway by randomly selecting an answer from each of the 2nd two boxes. You may want to add a box of N/A in each of the second boxes.

 

My previous dog died of cancer as well but it wasn't a greyhound, my family mutt growing up. It's devastating and leaves a hole in your heart.

Kristyn

 

Oops, I didn't realize that. This is my first time starting a poll and I have not idea how to edit it. Admin?

[HopeForHounds]

Dr Couto's numbers are

 

1 in 4 greyhounds will get cancer - but remember, their stats are low on other diseases thaat other breeds die from.

 

80% of the greyhounds with cancer have osteosarcoma.

 

Foxy was diagnosed with hemarngiopericytoma in Aug 2004. She died this August, but we don't know for sure if the cancer came back. Even if it did, it is unlikely that she died from it.

 

 

[Guest indigojen]

We've lost 4 greyhounds. One had a soft tissue sarcoma and the other, though not diagnosed, was most likely a nasal tumor.

[iluvgreys]

Out of my 6 greyhounds, I lost 3 to osteo, when they were in the 9 to 10 yr. old range. The two seniors had non-cancer health issues at ages 14 1/2 and 16. My surviving grey, Finn, is healthy and I watch him like a hawk.