I just discovered a bunch of small lumps on my roommates cat that are all around both of her armpit areas. The cat is 8 years old. She doesn’t really like to be touched a whole lot so I don’t think anyone knew about this. I’m going to tell my roommate so she can get it checked out (unless she already has) but in the meantime just to satisfy my own curiosity I’m wondering how easy it is to tell the difference between a cancerous tumor and a lipoma.
I do have some experience with this because I had a rabbit a few years ago that had two lipomas on his armpit area that felt soft and fatty. They didn’t bug him at all even though one grew to the size of a golfball. But then when he was old he developed a cancerous tumor on his stomach area as well as little bumps nearby and the tumor grew to the size of maybe half a golfball and it was very hard, which was different than the lipomas.
My roommates cats bumps feel a lot of the lipomas my rabbit had, but the main difference is that there’s a lot of them on both arm pit areas, maybe 3-5 on both sides and each are about the size of raisins or a little bigger.
Like I said I’m going to tell my roommate about it so she can get it checked out but in the meantime I’m just curious if this sounds more like something benign or serious.
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