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Splenic Mass or Hemoabdomen

A bleeding splenic mass may make your dog weak, pale, or cold. Imaging (ultrasound and/or x-ray imaging) and diagnostic abdominocentesis may be suggested. Surgery may be recommended. Transcript: Your dog appears to have a splenic mass--or cancer affecting its spleen. Your dog may have a hemoabdomen--or belly full of blood. You may have noticed that your dog got tired or weak. Maybe you noticed your dog is pale or cold. Maybe your dog even has a big distended belly that's full of blood. This is a common emergency, and these dogs often come in weak and pale sometimes on a stretcher or a gurney. Part of the treatment includes surgery to take out the spleen and the bleeding mass, and this can be a big decision for some pet parents. The types of cancers that affect the spleen are often hemangioma or hemangiosarcoma, with hemangiosarcoma being the bad type of cancer--the cancer that tends to spread elsewhere in the body--usually the liver or heart. This bad type of cancer tends to be the case in two-thirds of dogs that present like this. For those dogs, even with the splenectomy the median survival time is about two to three months. With chemotherapy these dogs have a median survival time of about six to eight months. Keep in mind that dogs are individuals and some of them way outlive these median survival times and some of them don't even come close to meeting those expectations. For the dogs that fit into that other one-third--the ones with the the relatively good cancer of the spleen--those hemangiomas, the surgery alone can be curative and prevent future bleeds. So these dogs do incredibly well even though we've taken out that spleen they don't really need it we certainly don't want a bad spleen that has a tendency to bleed.