My cat starting exhibiting symptoms in June. Intially, I felt a lump on her mammary, and made an appointment for the following week. I've predominately had male cats in the past, so it never occured to me that my cat, my sweet Squee, could get mammary cancer. I felt so guilty, like I had been neglecting her. The mass was about the size of a pinky finger tip, tubular in nature. The vet examined her, and was able to completely express the mass down, I was relieved. All her lab work came back great as well. A month later, the mass returned, hardened this time. I took her back, the vet advised surgery. I took about 6 weeks to decide. Her appetite never lacked nor her energy leading up to the surgery, thus I waited. I was hoping it was just scar tissue. It didn't seem to be growing, but I went ahead and scheduled the surgery for last week. It was a grade 1 mammary adenocarcinoma on her left upper mammary. Squee is doing well since the surgery. She also has a heart murmur, making the surgery more dangerous. They only removed the mammary and tumor, and I'm concerned that we should be more aggressive, and continue with the rest of the chain, but the longer the surgery, the more taxing on her little heart. The next step for me is going to be having her x-rayed to ensure the tumor was isolated. I hate this. I just want my sweet, little companion to be okay.

8 year old kitty. Fixed at age 5. Had mammary lumps about a year and a half ago, benign. New lumps formed about a year later. They grew very quickly and very large. One is 10c, one is 2c. Xray shows 2 possible masses in lungs and her back legs have become extremely weak in a week's time frame. She seems happy, eats/drinks aaaaaand is alert. Vet recommend quality of life. Is it worth getting a blood test or having the lumps removed? She also lost a few lbs in 2 months.

Mycat's mammary gland wase about a centimetre in length s n blackish grey colour and about half of it is thiscolour now.It appears kind ofvattached to the white sectionnow.Ds thissound like mammary cancer?

I have a 12 year birmanese cat who was operated 3 months ago for mammary tumor. was sterilized at 10 after complications.Everything went well and the recovery was pretty fast. Also the pre operatory blood tests were all good to the doctors amazement. they asked if i want biopsy but didn't necessary advise to because they said that will only tell you if is malignant or not, but will not change the long term treatment as they consider getting her under chimio would mean unnecessary pain and stress for her and i dont want to put her through that. they gave me some oncologic natural pills, but she refuses them to take no matter how: swallow as it is, powder in the food, diluted with water (i got really scared when i tried that because she started puking and making bubbles at her mouth). now i notice 4 bumps on her body in different places that are growing. 3 are in the skin, not attached to the body. 1 is on her forehead and it attached to her skull. like she just bumped into something and is swollen. she has not lost her appetite and no change in her behavior and i will be visiting the doctor this weekend for consult. but i want your opinion on what should be done next. personally i think some cells migrated and now are growing. what would be the best approach to that?

I've taken my cat to three different vets. She has a lump on her stomach she wont leave alone, she licks it until it bleeds. They just give me a cone and send me home. It's so big they don't want to operate, but she is alert and doing okay otherwise so they dont want to put her down. Her tumor is now infected and open I treated with antibiotics from the vet for two weeks but it doesn't seem to be healing! I don't know how to help her and the vets wont do anything one way or another.

My cat is 20 years old now. She still eats and moves about, though she seems to be careful about it. She will let me brush her and remove matted wads of hair with scissors but she has given up on grooming herself. A few months ago I saw she had a festering, deep, open wound on her underside between her back legs. I took her to the vet who gave her a steroid shot and gave me ointment to apply to the wound. He said for a cat her age she was really quite fiesty. He asked about possible wounding and I told him that she was our only pet and was always indoors so I felt it didn't begin with an injury. He then mentioned that the location COULD indicate cancer of the mammary glands and recommended I wait to see how she did with the treatment. (At that time she was losing quite a bit of blood from the site.) Today I noticed just a few droplets of blood on the blanket where she sleeps and when I examined her, discovered that the ulcer is back and just as big and just as raw as before. Is it time for me to have my cat euthanized? I love her but I am not able to spend the kind of money that would be required for surgery.