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Oral Melanoma

by landauvet - November 2, 2009

Hi Steve,

I was asked by a local vet to help her sister's dog from afar who has a second oral mass. She is a 11 year old lab collie cross FS. The mass was removed and was a malignant melanoma. This present mass is in the same general vacinity of the first and thought to be a recurrence. A biopsy results confirmed the diagnosis of malignant melanoma. It was not encapsulated nor were normal borders observed.
As a first-timer with this type of tumor, I was hoping for some general input.
I would consider this a blood stasis tumor, so I might considered modified XFZYT.
I will interview the owner over the phone to get a TCM picture of the situation.

Thanks,
Kevin Landau

by bannink

November 2, 2009

Kevin,

I find oral melanomas very challenging to control and haven't had too much luck with most of them. However, I do have one patient right now who had aggressive recurence 2 weeks after debulking of an oral malnanoma on the left caudal hard palate. I started high doses of Si Miao San and Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin and the disease progression halted, ulceration and bleeding resolved and disease has been stable for over 1 month. n=1 For what it's worth.

Erin

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