Bella's biopsy results

This is the email I receive from my mom. 

The vet called me today with the results of Bella’s biopsy.  I couldn’t understand the official name of the type of cells that they found, but basically it is a low grade (not aggressive) tumor.  They believe it is a nerve sheath tumor (or possibly connective tissue tumor).  It is not melanoma, but it is not benign either.  It is not common.

 

She recommends that we use an injectable chemotherapy treatment.  She would need 2-4 treatments, about every 3 weeks.  Another option is to surgically remove it and do chemo, but the surgery would be quite invasive (she said “think small softball size incision/hole” to be sure to get all of it) and it would take a long time to heal.  She prefers to do chemo first, and then later, if needed, do surgery after the tumor is smaller so it would be less invasive.  Also, if we do the surgery, we would have to trailer her to their office – they wouldn’t do that at the barn.

 

She is planning to give her the first injection of chemo when she comes next Tuesday to remove her stitches.