# bird has cancer

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 19, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-has-cancer/176278 "2003-05-19T23:22:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-has-cancer/176278/1 "2003-05-19T23:22:15Z")

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My pet conure ( a kind of small parrot) just had a mass removale operation. The histology report indicated that the mass was a low grade hemangioma, a cancer of the blood vessels. it was in the skin, superficial to the muscles of his chest wall. It seems to be a rare condition, the histology report only prognosis information for dogs. Does anyone know of a bird with this tumor? Did the bird recover? My pet is recovering well from the operation, but I am having trouble finding information abou this.

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**Author:** ![artemis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@artemis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/artemis)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-has-cancer/176278/2 "2003-05-20T15:10:40Z")

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As a fellow conure owner, I’m sorry to hear about your bird’s tumor. ☹

Avian medicine is still nowhere near as advanced as canine or feline medicine is. I doubt you’ll find much (if any) information in the literature about your bird’s tumor. It might even be the first low-grade hemangiosarcoma reported in a parrot. I think you’re going to have to extrapolate from the dog data (risky), and hope that the surgery successfully removed the tumor and it won’t reccur.

I hope your featherd buddy is feeling better soon!