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Areas of the body inside or out, it all can get affected by cancer. Cancer is a abnormal amount of cell growth that keeps growing and spreading throughout time if there is no treatments. Even with treatments though there still is a chance of not making it. Cancer is seen in not only house hold animals but wild animals also. Cancer is mostly seen in older dogs on average around the age ten or older. Dogs are seen more often with cancer than cats although. Prevention of cancer in animals is in fact hard because there is no way to tell until they have it. If the piece is small enough it can be removed and if there is to much cancer throughout the body they usually end up dying because it ends up in there lymphatic system. Blood test, x-rays, ultrasounds, can be used to help determine an animals case of cancer but it can look like a blockage if it is in the small or large intestines. The only way to see is to have surgery and see the cancer by eye. .
Eight most common cancers found in animals are skin which usually are found on older pets, breast typically on cats about an 85% chance more than dogs something that decreases the chances of breast cancer in animals is fixing them. The head and neck, lymphoma, feline leukemia complex, testicles which is another good reason to fix the animals, abdominal tumors, and bone. This doesn't mean your animal will receive cancer after it turns ten but there is a higher chance and this doesn't mean your animal won't get cancer before the age of ten. Also, other cancers can be diagnosed to your pet those are just the most common ones. .
How to detect if a pet has cancer, loss of appetite, no bowel movement, no control of urine (if housebroke), swelling, soreness that isn't healing, losing an excessive amount of weight, a different smell (not a dog smell), and not there self. .
Cancer is easier to detect in humans because well we can speak, in animals we have to be observant towards them and notice it.