Melanomas in non grey horses

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Has anyone ever experienced this and what was the outcome?

A client of mine bought a lovely pony in January that flew through a 5 stage vetting. Recently we noticed a lump appear on the side of her face. Didn't think anything of it but pointed it out to the vet when she came out for something else. She said she'd biopsy it. When she came back to do that a week or so later it became apparent that lots of other little ones were appearing on her nose. The results came back as a melanoma but was a low activity rate. Her vet discussed it with a specialist at the nearest Equine Hospital and he is very concerned about it because of her colouring, the fact she is young and the rate they are appearing. The vet gave the results in person as she was at the yard and while she was there we suddenly noticed about a dozen more, but this time spread allover her body in different places!!

She is going in to the vets for more of the lumps to be biopsied to look at their activity level as they clearly are spreading and they are also going to scope her, as most of them are on her face, to see if there are any internally.

It's a painful topic of me as I lost my GREY at 17 to melanomas which blocked him up and on post mortem his digestive system was riddled with them. But the fact this mare is not grey is seemingly very rare, so apparently could be more serious

If anyone knows any experiences I'd love to hear them!
 

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Hi my bay mare had one by girth area that was twenty years ago. Vet told me then rare as rocking horse poo and I was unlucky the mare was PTS for other reasons
 

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Sorry I don't know about melanomas in non-greys.

*bump*

thank you.... I think the silence even though viewed shows how rare this must be...


Hi my bay mare had one by girth area that was twenty years ago. Vet told me then rare as rocking horse poo and I was unlucky the mare was PTS for other reasons

Was it only the one? I'm so hoping that after this "activity" with them appearing it calms down and that's it....
 

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yes it was only the one but started at the age of thirteen but she was pts about three months after so who knows weather she would have got more
 

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I don't know anything about them in non-greys, I recently had an 11yo grey PTS because of them. Ask your friend to contact Derek Knottenbelt-his email can be found on the Liverpool Vet School site.
 

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I don't know anything about them in non-greys, I recently had an 11yo grey PTS because of them. Ask your friend to contact Derek Knottenbelt-his email can be found on the Liverpool Vet School site.

Really sorry to hear about your horse. :(

Yes our vet will be contacting him as the pony is going to be having the new treatment he has developed which was recently written about in the Horse and Hound where they inject each lump.

She would actually like to take the pony there for him to see her! Fairly long way from Hampshire! But it is still early days in the diagnosis so she wants the early tests done here first.
 
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I had a black pony with a melanoma, was PTS at about 30 with cushings!

Was in just the one? What age did it first appear?

This pony has developed 15-20 (they have been counted, photographed and noted properly, I just didn't count myself!) in literally a month or so.
 

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Sorry I'm absolutely no help but I really hope you get the answers you need. She's such a lovely mare we're all very upset to hear the bad news :( sending hugs to you all as it most be absolutely devastating
 

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Thanks koko. We are gutted. She has been such a sweetie but we seem to have hit a wall of bad luck!!!! You will definitely be kept up to date with what happens!! We will not give up, Louise has even talked about driving her to Liverpool to see Prof Knottenbelt! But it is early days. Send vibes next Tuesday when she goes in for the scope and biopsies. X
 
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