MAST CELL TUMOR

Bobo came to us as a foster dog from SW Humane Society. He came to us with a broken jaw, lumps and bumps all over his body and just skin and bones. We were his rehab foster parents until he could go to his forever home. While here, we discovered that he is a sweet and wonderful dog so we adopted him. Thus we inherited him with all his problems including the lumps and bumps. You can check out the adoption and registration here. He was previously named Brutus, but after the adoption, we renamed him Bobo because we considered Brutus to be too mean of a name for a sweet Pit Bull like him.

Soon after the adoption, we took him in for rabies vaccine and evaluated by VCA. You can view VCA medical report here, or if you preferred, check out Bobo’s Lumps and Bumps video. VCA suggested surgery to remove his tumors, but due to our former experience involving surgery, we refused. We wanted to make sure that the tumors were not cancerous before committing to surgery. We have found that when cancerous tumors are removed, sometimes even the best precautions could potentially spread the cancer to other areas. Max, our last dog, died one month after surgery. His is the face you will see on the Tumorid® box. You can click on his image to see the product.

Several months after we adopted Bobo, we noticed that he was walking oddly and he acted lethargic. So we took Bobo into East Padden Hospital for examination and biopsy, and one of the tumors turned out to be a mast cell tumor, aka Human Leukemia equivalent. After receiving East Padden’s diagnosis, we asked for a second opinion by having the biopsy tissue sent out to a pathology lab for verification. (East Padden Report, Pathology Lab Report). Dr. Seltran, Bobo's vet at the time, recommended surgery, which we refused.

After several years of experimenting, Tumorid® was born and we used it on the biggest and fastest growing tumor on his body first. Which happened to be on his tail. After the tumor was reduced, we took Bobo back to East Padden Hospital for verification. Please see Dr. Thompson's report.

Dr. Thompson verified that his tumor was no longer there, but she also told us the one we removed wasn't the mast cell tumor. Bobo's mast cell tumor was a smaller one left of his spinal cord so we removed his mast cell tumor with Tumorid® and sent that down to the pathology lab. You can check out the report here. Due to our inexperience, we stored the tumor in the fridge over the weekend and did not preserve it correctly so the report came back inconclusive of mast cells. Yet, this is the same tumor verified by two vets previously that it was the mast cell tumor.

As of right now, Bobo's mast cell is no longer there. We are carefully monitoring him for a recurrence and nothing has recurred. You can see how happy and healthy he is as of March of 2020 on the video above.