How to Detect Skin Cancer in Dogs

Video Transcript

"My name is Endre Sas and I will tell you how to detect skin cancer in dogs. Detecting skin cancer in dogs needs careful examination. What you really need to know your dog properly the daily grooming sessions and the bathing of your dog will help you to recognize strange tumors, lumps, swellings, discolorations or across areas in your dog. If you have a lump or a tumors or a mass on your dogs body it's always very important to see what are the changes, whether it's growing, whether it's growing rapidly, whether there is any discoloration or any kind of bleeding. If the dog is licking itself, especially at one spot always check what is the problem there. Why it's licking itself. It's always best to check the nipples and the mammary glands, and if you have a dog with a healing problem or a bleeding area or discoloration it's always best to check. Time frame, time limit is a very important issue, if you consider or recognized something which is not normal, which is strange, which is an alteration ask you local veterinarian and have the dog examined. Otherwise you can lose a lot of important and very valuable time."