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MY BEAGLE HAS A LUMP ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT PAW-LAST TOE..1X1 MM.

AFTER A NEEDLE ASPIRATE FROM MY VET....THE VET TELLS ME IT IS A "SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMOR THEN IN HIS NEXT BREATH TELLS ME HE CAN NOT TELL WHAT THIS IS OR IF ITS CANCER!

WHAT I ASK HIM???


HE THEN TELLS ME MY DOG NOW NEEDS A BIOPSY....


AFTER DOING HOURS OF RESEACH, I FIND THAT A SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMOR HAS TO DO WITH THE OIL GLAND AND NOT CANCER.


MY QUESTION IS WHY THEN WOULD I PUT MY DOG THRU SURGERY
FOR THIS AT THE TUNE OF $425.00 THE VET WANTS TO CHARGE ME IF IT IS NOT LIFE THREATING?

I THOUGHT BY THE VET DOING A NEEDLE ASPIRATE THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL WHAT KIND OFF FLUID WAS IN FACT INSIDE THIS LITTLE 1X1 MM LUMP MY ON MY DOGS PAW....

******ANYONE WITH ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS OR WHERE I SHOULD GO FROM HERE......**** PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL DIRECTLY****

I WILL REPLY TO ALL.....

THANK YOU KINDLY IN ADVANCE.....

MARY TORELLO'

MTTORLLO@AOL.COM

[quote="MTTORELLO"]MY BEAGLE HAS A LUMP ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT PAW-LAST TOE..1X1 MM.

AFTER A NEEDLE ASPIRATE FROM MY VET....THE VET TELLS ME IT IS A "SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMOR THEN IN HIS NEXT BREATH TELLS ME HE CAN NOT TELL WHAT THIS IS OR IF ITS CANCER!

WHAT I ASK HIM???


HE THEN TELLS ME MY DOG NOW NEEDS A BIOPSY....


AFTER DOING HOURS OF RESEACH, I FIND THAT A SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMOR HAS TO DO WITH THE OIL GLAND AND NOT CANCER.


MY QUESTION IS WHY THEN WOULD I PUT MY DOG THRU SURGERY
FOR THIS AT THE TUNE OF $425.00 THE VET WANTS TO CHARGE ME IF IT IS NOT LIFE THREATING?

I THOUGHT BY THE VET DOING A NEEDLE ASPIRATE THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL WHAT KIND OFF FLUID WAS IN FACT INSIDE THIS LITTLE 1X1 MM LUMP MY ON MY DOGS PAW....

******ANYONE WITH ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS OR WHERE I SHOULD GO FROM HERE......**** PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL DIRECTLY****

I WILL REPLY TO ALL.....

THANK YOU KINDLY IN ADVANCE.....

MARY TORELLO'

MTTORELLO@AOL.COM[/quote]

If your vet is certain that it's just a sebaceous cyst, then there's almost certainly no need for a biopsy. $425 for removal and biopsy is highway robbery. It should be half of that. But prices fluctuate from place-to-place, and you're in NY City, so maybe that's part of it.