Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I took three-legged Cody in to see our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, today for a recheck on his cancer.  Cody completed his chemotherapy course about three weeks ago, but there were still a few very small remaining lesions at the base of his, um, penis.  Yes, it was a transmissible venereal tumor, folks, which Cody got when he was in Miami.  (See our original post on his cancer diagnosis here.)

We’ve since heard from a veterinary student in North Carolina who had studied at a vet school in the Caribbean, and she said this type of tumor was quite common among dogs in the islands.  In fact, her roommate’s dog had a TVT, and was successfully treated.

At the recheck Dave found a couple of lesions were still present, though they hadn’t grown at all, and the entire formerly cancerous area remained very "quiet."  We’ll have to recheck again in three weeks, and then probably every few months for a year to make sure the tumor is completely eradicated.

Cody, needless to say, did not like the examination at all, but was very stoic and tolerated it just fine.