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My 12 year old cat Sophie has just been diagnosed with Squamous Cell carcinoma. Squamous Cell carcinoma is a cancer that is resistant to any and all types of treatments. This cancer was found in her mouth along her gum line and goes all the way to the back of her throat. This type of cancer can also show up on the skin. Sophie will die of this cancer. My vet told me that even if he tried to remove the cancer in surgery, it would just return. There isn't anything my vet or I can do to save Sophie's life other than keep her as comfortable as possible. Please make sure your vet checks your cats and dogs for any types of cancer. Sophie will eventually stop eating and I will have to have her euthanized.
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| I am so sorry! I know you're devastated. Thank you for reminding us all to get our cats checked. I wonder, though - is there any possibility that you could take Sophie to a veterinary university - wondering if there might be some clinical trials or something new that they could try? My heart goes out to you. You and Sophie are in my prayers.
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| I am so sorry for you and your cat's pain, and wish you the best.
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| I'm so sorry to hear this. It's the word we all dread to hear about our babies or ourselves. I hope the rest of her life is happy and pain free, staffordmom
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| LBori, I hope you come back online and see this, I noticed that you haven't been on for a week. I was looking on www.petfinder.com to verify something for someone else on here, and I saw a cat that had had its ears removed due to squamous cell cancer - poor thing! Like the article Feathers N'Fuz linked had mentioned, this kitty is a solid white cat. But what got my attention is that they expect her to recover! So I wonder if maybe you need a second opinion about your cat? I may be grasping at straws but I want so bad to help you.
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Cats Dolls, I think the reason this cat was able to recover from the cancer is because it was easily accessible and could be easily removed. I'm pretty sure that cancer inside the throat cannot be removed due to the extent of it and the possible damage that going in there could do. When I was a kid my mother had a little dog that got cancer in her throat. Maybe it was the same kind? Anyways, we had to put her to sleep because of it.
That was 14 years ago or something along those lines, so things have changed a lot. There may be a treatment to slow down the growth of the cancer so that the kitty can be made comfortable and possibly live a bit longer. Cancer is probably the scariest illness out there as far as pets and people are concerned.
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| I had a feeling that it was wishful thinking but wanted to suggest the possibility. My much-loved Phyllis died a year and a half ago of bone cancer, nothing they could do for her either - I wanted to spare someone else from going through that if any way possible.
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