Condition journey
Cancer
Understanding a diagnosis, deciding on treatment, and living well — with support at every stage.
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Your cancer care team
These are the practitioners this condition can call for, from your everyday vet to specialists and therapists. Enter your postcode to see who's near you at each step.
- Your vet (primary care)
Veterinary oncologist ·Referral hospital
Home & hospice end-of-life vet ·Mobile vet (home visits)
Understanding cancer
Reading from PetsLikeMineStage 1
A lump or a worrying sign
- Cancer and Your Pet: Start Here 8 min
- The Lump You've Found: When to Worry, and Why "Wait and See" Is the Wrong Move 8 min
- The Warning Signs of Cancer in Dogs and Cats (and the Quieter Feline Ones) 8 min
- "My Vet Wants to Take a Sample": Aspirates, Biopsies and What the Results Mean 10 min
- Benign or Not? The Common Lumps That Aren't Cancer 8 min
Stage 2
Understanding the diagnosis
- You've Heard the Word "Cancer": What Grade, Stage and Prognosis Actually Mean 9 min
- "How Long Has My Pet Got?" Reading a Prognosis Honestly 7 min
- Lymphoma in Dogs: The Most Treatable Common Cancer 9 min
- Lymphoma in Cats: The Commonest Feline Cancer 8 min
- Mast Cell Tumours: The Lump That's "the Great Pretender" 9 min
- Osteosarcoma in Dogs: The Amputation Decision, and Life on Three Legs 10 min
- Haemangiosarcoma: The Hard Truth About the "Silent" Splenic Cancer 12 min
- Mammary (Breast) Tumours in Dogs and Cats, and the Neutering Link 9 min
- Soft Tissue Sarcoma: The Lump That Needs More Than a Simple "Lumpectomy" 9 min
- Oral Tumours: Canine Melanoma and Feline Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma 8 min
- Injection-Site Sarcoma in Cats: The One You've Never Heard Of 8 min
- Bladder Cancer (Transitional Cell Carcinoma): Signs and Options 8 min
Stage 3
Deciding on treatment
- Should I Treat? Treating, Comfort Care, and Why There's No Wrong Answer 10 min
- Pet Chemotherapy Is Not Human Chemotherapy: What to Really Expect 9 min
- What Does Cancer Treatment Cost, and How Do People Pay for It? 11 min
- Cancer Surgery: What Removing It Involves, and "Getting Clean Margins" 10 min
- Radiation Therapy for Pets: When It's Used and What It's Like 9 min
- Getting a Referral to a Veterinary Oncologist, and When to Seek a Second Opinion 8 min
- Clinical Trials, Immunotherapy and Newer Options: Real Hope Versus Hype 9 min
Stage 4
Going through treatment
Stage 5
Living with cancer
- Comfort-Focused Care: Choosing Quality of Life When You Don't Treat 8 min
- Quality of Life You Can Measure: Using the Score to See What's Really Happening 8 min
- Remission: What It Means, and Watching for the Cancer Coming Back 8 min
- Making the Most of the Time: Good Days, Normality and What Matters 7 min
- Complementary and Alternative Therapies: What Helps, What's Harmless, What's Hype 10 min
Stage 6