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Hi Meshach,

I’m sorry to message you out of the blue, but I was searching the forum for “gliomas in dogs” and came across your old post about your corgi who was diagnosed with one. I hope you don’t mind me reaching out, but I just had an 11 year old border terrier diagnosed with a glioma. We’re trying to decide treatment options, so if you have time, I would really appreciate any input you could provide about how you chose to treat your dog’s tumor. If it’s a subject you don’t want to revisit, I 1000% get that. Thanks!

Margaret

[Meshach]

Hello! I am SO sorry I am late in seeing this message, I just stumbled upon it now.

My corgi was diagnosed about February of 2013 and I lost him in August of '13. I had decided after diagnosis to take him to University of Florida in Gainesville from NC to do a treatment of stereotactic radiosurgery (NC State vet school did not offer that at the time but it does now). It was all very expensive and rough going, I was in FL for a week with him and he was in bad shape when he came back but then started to bounce back. We had a decent summer with occasional seizures, he got to go to the beach again one more time and his quality of life seemed improved. It was a stressful time though, seizures are very upsetting.

Hindsight and all that, I don’t think I would go through the radiosurgery again as we really only had about five months and honestly, who knows if that improvement of quality of life was due to the prednisone he was on (for inflammation) and not the procedure. I know when the necropsy was done, he had a different type of tumor than what the MRI had diagnosed.

I would definitely ask your vet about putting your pup on prednisone. And depending on your individual diagnosis and of course bank account about whether to go through some drastic radiology treatments.

Take care!!
Charlene