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Miles is a very sweet, very kind, very loving emotional support dog. He's 7 years young, not even half way through the average lifespan of a lemon beagle like him.
He's also got a large mass in his nasal cavity. The problem is, due to its position and size, biopsies are 'inconclusive' because a sample cannot be collected without an extremely painful and invasive surgical procedure on his snout because the mass is interlaced with his palate. His incredible Veterinarian, Dr.Fenner, likes to try to treat things medically *first* if that's an option to avoid putting furbabies through painful, stressful, expensive procedures that may not even be necessary so she placed Miles on a medication intended to decrease the size of the mass and then Miles will need to undergo new imagining and a rhinoscopy to determine if the mass has decreased in size. If it has, then it's most likely not cancer and it'll just be a matter of determining what can be done to further reduce the size of the mass, and possibly remove part of it surgically (removal of the entire mass may not be possible due to it being interlaced with his palate), however if it has not reduced in size then we need to prepare for the possibility that it may be cancer.
If the mass is cancerous, that doesn't mean it's the end of the line. We are going to fight every way possible to keep Miles alive until we beat the cancer or it reaches the point where we need to let him go because his quality of life is suffering so much that it would be selfish and cruel not to give him peace.
Either way, the imaging and rhinoscopy alone are fairly costly as just the imaging requires special anesthesia and having a cardiologist involved in the procedure because of a heart murmur that could cause complications. When rhinoscopy is involved, it can be even more expensive because he needs to be under for a longer period, it requires more equipment, and more specialized staff for the procedure.
If you donate to this campaign, you will be helping pay for the scoping and imaging to determine if the mass is cancerous or if it has decreased in size from the medication. If it is cancerous, then any donations will go towards all of the necessary treatments to fight the cancer and give Miles as much of a fighting chance as we can.
He's also got a large mass in his nasal cavity. The problem is, due to its position and size, biopsies are 'inconclusive' because a sample cannot be collected without an extremely painful and invasive surgical procedure on his snout because the mass is interlaced with his palate. His incredible Veterinarian, Dr.Fenner, likes to try to treat things medically *first* if that's an option to avoid putting furbabies through painful, stressful, expensive procedures that may not even be necessary so she placed Miles on a medication intended to decrease the size of the mass and then Miles will need to undergo new imagining and a rhinoscopy to determine if the mass has decreased in size. If it has, then it's most likely not cancer and it'll just be a matter of determining what can be done to further reduce the size of the mass, and possibly remove part of it surgically (removal of the entire mass may not be possible due to it being interlaced with his palate), however if it has not reduced in size then we need to prepare for the possibility that it may be cancer.
If the mass is cancerous, that doesn't mean it's the end of the line. We are going to fight every way possible to keep Miles alive until we beat the cancer or it reaches the point where we need to let him go because his quality of life is suffering so much that it would be selfish and cruel not to give him peace.
Either way, the imaging and rhinoscopy alone are fairly costly as just the imaging requires special anesthesia and having a cardiologist involved in the procedure because of a heart murmur that could cause complications. When rhinoscopy is involved, it can be even more expensive because he needs to be under for a longer period, it requires more equipment, and more specialized staff for the procedure.
If you donate to this campaign, you will be helping pay for the scoping and imaging to determine if the mass is cancerous or if it has decreased in size from the medication. If it is cancerous, then any donations will go towards all of the necessary treatments to fight the cancer and give Miles as much of a fighting chance as we can.
Organizer
Robert Eckman
Organizer
Pasadena, MD