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My Chocolate Lab is 4.5 years old, thought he was happy and healthy. Got a MCT surgery on his lip a week ago. They didn't get the full margins. They found that it was a Stage 2 High Grade MCT. I'm going to see an oncologist tomorrow. Praying I can get the best information to treat him the best. He's my best friend.

Right. I see so many things that says its curable but then they say there is no cure.

I know this question / comments are from a couple of years ago, but thought I’d stick a note here in case people are reading it more recently and wondering. - The survival time of four months to two years is untreated. So if your dog has a mast cell tumour and you don’t do anything for it (no surgery, no chemo, etc), if they’ve got a high grade (fast growing) tumour, life expectancy is about four months; low grade (slow growing) is about two years. When you add treatments to that, you change the life expectancy. Secondly, there’s a difference between treatable and curable. - Curable - we can remove the tumour (and possibly add other treatments like medication or radiation) and there’s a good chance the cancer won’t come back. You can never guarantee this in advance, you always have to do follow up to watch for recurrence for a time afterwards. Best chance of a cure is always surgery first, with clear margins. And then if the cancer has spread to lymph nodes (showing that it’s starting to move elsewhere on the body), adding chemotherapy to kill those travelling cells. - Treatable - there are treatments we can use (surgery, medications, radiation) that can make a positive difference in how the disease progresses. For example: - A small, low grade tumour that’s completely removed has a good likelihood of being cured, even with no other treatment (ie may not need chemo etc). - A tumour that’s maybe small,Aube a bit bigger, and has spread to the lymph nodes (travelling cancer cells … think of dandelion seeds floating on the air) … we need to do surgery to remove the main mass (pull the mother dandelion), and give chemotherapy to kill the travelling cells. Depending on the type of cancer etc, there can be a very good chance of a cure, and we’re going to follow treatment up with watching and assessing regularly to make sure the cancer hasn’t come back. - A larger or more aggressive tumour, where there isn’t just evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes but we actually see growth of that tumour in other areas of the body (ie not just floating dandelion seeds, but some of those seeds have touched down and there are actual dandelions growing elsewhere), we know we’re not going to be able to cure it. That doesn’t mean we can’t do anything, though. There are treatments we can use (surgery, medications, radiation) that can remove some of the cancer and slow down the growth of the cancer so that we buy the dog more time. So for that high grade cancer that had a life expectancy of four months if we do nothing, we can maybe stretch that out to a year. Or the low grade one that had a life expectancy of two years, maybe that gets stretched out to 3-5 years. Can’t cure it, but we can buy time. Hope that helps for anyone who’s looking at the comments now. And I hope you all had valuable time with your pets. Mine is just in the diagnosis stage. I’m going for low grade, but it’s developed quite quickly, so I’m thinking that may not be the case.

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KetoNatural dry food is excellent!

The Farmer’s Dog and Ollie are also great wet foods.