tumour of the palate

[geordief]

My dachshund is almost 16 and now has a tumour of the palate.
I am advised by my vet that he may need to be put down in the near future as this is very serious and any operation (which I don't even consider) would involve removing the upper jaw.
Really I am wondering if anyone here has experience of this kind of a thing.
Of course I wil follow my vet's advice more or less to the letter but I do know that they are far from infallible .
So any advice or information would be appreciated

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Sorry to hear about your dog. One of my cats where euthanized in march, due to a tumour in the lower jaw, and I was also told that the only thing the vet could have done was to remove her lower jaw.

I don't know if it's different in dogs, or wich stage your dog is in, but my vet said that her experience was that mouth-tumours usually grows and/or spreads fast, and that I only could count on one to four weeks before my cats life would have to end, but Aldis tumour had already grown so that a lot of the bone was gone in one side of the jaw and replaced by tumour-tissue.

We pamperd Aldis as much as her shy personality would allow us to do, for a little more than a week, then we went out and stayed in our summerhouse. When we saw that she started to became disturbed by it when eating, we called the vet and made an appointment, around two weeks from the diagnosis. But the disease sure didn't affect Aldis so that she couldn't enjoy the things most cats enjoy, because even the last day she slept stretched out with her belly up, on my mothers bed in the heat from our woodstove, so she can't have felt to bad.

If you have any doubts, I would really recommend you to seek another vets advice as soon as possible. When the day comes, you don't need the extra worry about if there was anything more or else you could have done, those days are hard enough as it is.

Hugs from Sweden.

 

[Blue-bear]

My puppy has a developmental cyst on her upper jaw/nose. This hasnt been proved as cancerous but i was originally told by the vet that she would have to have a major operation to remove half her face which as you have we have said no way.
Our vet has tried really hard to find someone else with a similar problem and has ended up emailing a guy in america whose dog has very similar xrays and his advice was to laeve well alone as his dog (also a puppy when diagnosed) Has gone on for over a year and has had no effect of this lump.
So that is what we intend to do as she is still so happy and it doesnt hurt or affect her in the slightest, of course if it ever does then we will have to think again but we have brought ourselves alot of time by just waiting.
I understand this is a bit different to your situation and the age of your dog too but please dont give up the fight. Does it cause any discomfort is he still acting as normal?
I would try and seek some other opinions from some other vets without wanting to offend yours of course and just be 100% sure you know as much as you can about all the options and like our puppy, quality of life for them is the most important.