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6 year old male has lymphoma

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#1 ·
We are looking for pros and cons regarding frozen straws being done. We could ask the vet, but we want to have the opinions of people on this forum. I'm wondering if it would be a wise thing to have these frozen straws done on our 6 year old male dog who has lymphoma. Maybe I'm asking a ridiculous question but we want to breed him again to one of our females. The lump/cancer is on the bottom of his scrotum. My son doesn't want to do anything that may cause the cancer to spread. It was just detected. He is waiting to get the test results from the vet. The vet seems to think that it is the beginning stage. I know that this might not have any relevance to the situation but we had a female die at the age of five years and 1 week old. Her lymphoma wasn't detected earlier enough so we had to put her down to sleep. Thanks for any help/advice that can be given
 
#2 · (Edited)
well most vets are against feeding raw. I have heard good things for people and their dogs when they have gotten off commercial grade kibble. How do you know the cancer isn't genetic? Cancers are caused by many different factors, including the dogs genetic make up. So, the offspring can inherit a higher than average risk of getting a particular cancer. Why would you want to breed a dog who has a genetic defect that will pass to future litters?
 
#4 ·
What does that have to do with anything? I'm talking about the male with lymphoma on the scrotum even thinning about being bred. The female had passed is what I gathered? What am Missing?

I also just saw the "breed him again" so good luck to the offspring of the original breedings. I would inform them owners of the dogs who he sired of the health complication.

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#5 ·
If the dog has a cancer on the testicle and that is the only spot, why does the vet say its lymphoma which is wide spread cancer of the lymph nodes. It sounds like the dog does NOT have lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) but that he just may have a cancerous bump on the testicle.
That being said, if the dog does have actual cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma) then I would not bother doing straws, as 6 is young to get something like that. But if its just a cancer on the testicle then I don't see anything wrong with collecting a few straws and having him neutered, if he was a nice working or show dog. If just a pet, then don't bother.

I personally would just get him neutered :) and then focus on the off spring he produced.
 
#6 ·
Thanks Coach and Ames. The bitch wouldn't be related. But I could understand why the concern about passing the cancer to his offspring. I guess the cancer cells could skip generations. All the other dogs that were bred from the same parents don't or didn't have cancer at all. In fact, most of them died at the age between 11-14. I guess I jumped the gun because we didn't get the final results from the vet. For some reason the vet mentioned lymphoma. I'll keep this post up to date with the results. I hope I didn't create a problem for anyone.
 
#7 ·
Yeah, there is a HUGE difference between a cancer lump an a testicle and lymphoma :p
Keep us posted on the test results!
 
#8 ·
No problem at all! My issue is there is still so much unknown about cancer why take any risk with passing it on. Fingers crossed it's just a bump and not something worse!!

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