Throat cancer
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:04 pm
Has anyone on here for any experience of a cat with throat cancer? My poor Meg is only 2.5 but she has already had a severe bout of pancreatitis and was diagnosed 6 months ago with hip dysplasia, luxating patella and a spinal cord issue for which she is on forever metacam for.
She is a bit of an odd dwarf type shape and for the last year or so has always snored when sleeping, but this week her breathing went from normal to noisy and laboured in the space of 12 hours, went to vets and they said she needed camera down throat but they needed to get it off other surgery so would be a week, I asked if she could have anything to help her and was told no, so I went straight to another vet who sedated her today and had a look, she has an area of white growths in her throat that have made windpipe so narrow they couldn't even get a tube near, vets suspect it's cancer if she doesn't respond to steroids. She is brighter and breathing better since steroid but still clearly has a problem. Is there anything in the throat this could be if not cancer????
I'm so worried and will feel even worse having To make this decision on the basis of her response to steroids. I was offered referral vet but I don't want her having surgery for a biopsy when it's completely inoperable anyway, she's been through enough.
Any thoughts welcome.
Thank you.
She is a bit of an odd dwarf type shape and for the last year or so has always snored when sleeping, but this week her breathing went from normal to noisy and laboured in the space of 12 hours, went to vets and they said she needed camera down throat but they needed to get it off other surgery so would be a week, I asked if she could have anything to help her and was told no, so I went straight to another vet who sedated her today and had a look, she has an area of white growths in her throat that have made windpipe so narrow they couldn't even get a tube near, vets suspect it's cancer if she doesn't respond to steroids. She is brighter and breathing better since steroid but still clearly has a problem. Is there anything in the throat this could be if not cancer????
I'm so worried and will feel even worse having To make this decision on the basis of her response to steroids. I was offered referral vet but I don't want her having surgery for a biopsy when it's completely inoperable anyway, she's been through enough.
Any thoughts welcome.
Thank you.