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Sacha's skin carcinoma
Sacha, an 8yr old male German Shepherd came to us in Sept. 06 with an ulcerating tumour of the skin on the left side of the neck. There was no pain but ulcerating growths are often cancerous and we decided we should remove the tumour as soon as possible.
 
Once the skin growth had been removed we could feel another larger tumour deeper in the tissues.

Cutting through the subcutaneous fat and the muscles of the side of the neck we exposed a large encapsulated glandular tumour with a big blood supply that we were able to remove easily.
The skin wound was closed using staples and Sacha made a good recovery from anaesthetic and the wound healed well over the following 2 weeks.

Sacha under anaesthetic

The tumours were send for analysis and both were found to be carcinomas (cancerous growths), the deeper tumour being a first stage spread from the skin tumour. The outlook is good and so far there has been no sign of recurrence or spread of the cancer.
Unlike internal tumours, skin tumours can be spotted early and we have the opportunity to remove them before they spread or become too large. This is a good example of why early surgical removal of a skin tumour makes sense.

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