Page 100 - Aussie Magazine - 2024 Issue 3

Health

Cancer AND

Aussies -

IS IT A PROBLEM?

Text written by: C.A. Sharp, Photographs provided by: M. Hynkova, E. Sandova, T. Hudolin

We’ve all had special dogs in our lives. Moby was one of mine.
She was bright, personable and, even though she had severe
handicaps from birth, I’ve known few dogs with as much zest

and joy in life. Yet there I was, that sad July afternoon in 1994,
hoisting Moby to my vet’s examining table and steeling myself
to say good-by. Moby had mammary cancer. After surgery it

had metastasized to internal organs. Despite her stoicism in
the face of what must have been considerable pain, I knew it
was time to let her go. She was only nine years old.

Cancer is a common canine particular types indicating an mammary cancer, or arise in the
ailment. It is the most common inherited predisposition for bone marrow causing lymphoma
natural cause of death in the those cancers. or leukemia and sending vast
species as a whole, usually numbers of diseased cells
striking elderly dogs. But Cancer is not one disease, but into the lymph or circulatory
sometimes the victims are not many. Any disease causing systems. A cancer may start
elderly. They may even be an uncontrolled proliferation at one site then metastasize,
young. Even though cancer is a of abnormal cells is classified sending cells racing through the
species-wide canine problem, as cancer. Those abnormal bloodstream to wreak havoc
some breeds are prone to cells may form a tumor, as in elsewhere.

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