New Melanoma treatment - thermofield hyperthermia/chemo

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Anyone got any experience of this? Potentially available at the RVC for my boy, for the ones round his parotid glands (head/poll) and surgery for ones on his bum. Apparently better results than the vaccine, and cheaper. It involves 3 sessions over 3 weeks, and after the first it would be a day visit only. No after care needed for the thermafield, just being sensitive to the treated area for 48 hours. Sounds promising given there are such limited options for melanoma. Also seems relatively pain free for the horse.

https://mrcvs.co.uk/en/news/21280/RVC-announces-novel-melanoma-treatment-for-horses-

ETA the spanner in the works for him is he’s really needle shy, really bad ?
 
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I know nothing about the new melanoma treatment ( although having a grey it’s useful to know it exists), however I just wanted to say that we had huge success in getting a needle-phobic horse to be comfortable with syringes with clicker training. It literally took 5 minutes the first time and he went from being traumatised at the sight of a syringe to having his jabs and not even noticing. The second time we had to go through the same process as the first time, but were able to move more quickly through the steps. It was mindblowingly amazing and has been a complete game changer as to what kind of treatment I’d now opt for if I needed to.
 
Thx MU. I’ve not tried that but will do some research. He’s very gobby and grabby with food though so I don’t give treats by hand - does clicker training involved giving treats? But will def look into it as does make vet treatment difficult at times.

If we go ahead I’ll post on here as it’s a new treatment and not many have tried it so people might find it useful to know about.
 
It does involve giving treats so you’d probably have to go back a few steps to stop him being pushy around food but that’s certainly possible. It would be worth getting that sorted though if you did go ahead with the treatment - or anything else which requires injections.

Please do post details if you decide to do it
 
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