My lovely old boy is in the vets - he's had 6 seizures and they currently suspect liver cancer and want to rule that out first - it's £1800 for the needle biopsy plus scan/full bloods. That's all fine, totally get that.
However they think once they've ruled that out that they will then need to do an MRI (cost £1700) - so that will be £3,500 to get to a diagnosis.
Leaving only 500 max for treatment under the insurance - Direct Line are now only covering up to 4,000 per condition. What a fabulous return on £80 per month for the last 10 years.
What are my options After reading everything about canine cancer (and knowing a fair bit about human cancer) it seems that the studies only suggest that it buys up to an extra 3-6 months anyway if using chemo/radio/surgery.
I totally get that for a human it's a thought out choice to have that procedure but for my lovely dog he won't (obviously) understand and he will hate to be away from us.
I'm rambling, very stressed, very sad - any thoughts?
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LFCisTarkaDahl · 29/10/2012 11:30
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