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for the last seven years Scout has brought much joy to his family however in early July of 2019 Scout suddenly collapsed upon examination at a local hospital a large bleeding tumor was found in his heart the diagnosis was likely hemangioma and the prognosis was devastating hemangioma is an aggressive cancer that develops out of blood vessels generally that's a disease of the spleen of dogs but a percentage of dogs will develop that tumor at the base of the heart or in the heart tissue itself it's highly metastatic that is that it spreads rapidly and aggressively throughout the body in most cases unfortunately and our window of opportunity to treat this disease is quite short it really progresses very quickly the typical average survival for a dog that develops him angiosarcoma is about three months with very little that the doctors could do at the local hospital Scout's health faced grave danger but scout was lucky Scout had a family that was willing to fight for him and was willing to