We talked with a surgeon yesterday morning. It was a good talk. He said that cancers of the liver are usually slow growing, and hemangiosarcoma usually is first visible via problems with the spleen (and her spleen looked fine in the ultrasound), and the 3 cm diameter spot on her liver is on the right side near the gallbladder and difficult to get to and might not be possible to remove (due to proximity to other important things). She's not in any distress - it's not an emergency. Usually all the liver enzyme numbers increase a lot when the liver is having trouble - not just a relatively small increase in one number. And we don't even know if the symptoms she's having are due to the thing they see in the ultrasound image.
Given all that, and the risks of surgery, we're going to keep her on the antibiotics for a month then do another ultrasound. It might get better on its own, or might not change, or might get much worse. If it's fast growing, then there isn't much they can do anyway...
She was a little more playful yesterday evening, so maybe... :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Given all that, and the risks of surgery, we're going to keep her on the antibiotics for a month then do another ultrasound. It might get better on its own, or might not change, or might get much worse. If it's fast growing, then there isn't much they can do anyway...
She was a little more playful yesterday evening, so maybe... :-)
Cheers,
Scott.