Treatment — Surgery is the treatment of choice for most dogs
with apocrine gland tumors.
The prognosis
with apocrine gland adenocarcinoma depends on type of treatment, size of mass, presence of hypercalcemia and presence of lymph node involvement.
Not exact matches
Clear, fluid eccrine sweat, produced in much larger quantities, spreads the
apocrine over a larger surface area — and the stench along
with it.
(Hidradenitis suppurativa is a skin disease that most commonly affects areas bearing
apocrine sweat glands or sebaceous glands, such as the underarms, breasts, inner thighs, groin and buttocks) I have done extensive research on this disease as I have suffered
with it for about 30 years.
Chemotherapy combined
with surgery has been used in a few cases, but their efficacy in the treatment of
apocrine gland anal sac adenocarcinoma has not been established yet.
She was presented to our Oncology department at VRCC in May of 2009,
with a biopsy confirmed diagnosis of an aggressive sweat gland tumor (anaplastic
apocrine gland adenocarcinoma) of the skin of the right chest wall.
Each sac is lined
with abundant, modified sebaceous (oil) and
apocrine (sweat) glands.