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Originally Posted by ladyjane  My vet feels confident that it is benign; but I won't feel good about it until it is gone and biopsied and found to be benign. Things like this concern me. Probably a lot due to my having worked in Oncology/Hematology as a nurse. She did say that melanoma in dogs is not like it is in people. The ones in dogs that are a concern are in their mouths and on their feet.
I found the following links that have pictures and information: Melanocytoma Dogs Get Skin Cancer Too - CBS News |
That is sort of what I was thinking, but I was thinking that if they had something like that on their hiney that it would be a concern, too. I think I read that somewhere?