The mass was resected along with a portion of the body wall. He also goes on to say that we feel this is an infiltrative lipoma and will require ancillary radiation therapy to prevent recurrence and treat residual disease. I can't seen to find to much information of this lipoma and we want to give her the best possible care so we can all enjoy each other for the years to come. By the way the pathologist report agreed with the diagnosis of the surgeon. Did say prognosis is favorable.
Infiltrative lipomas can be a difficult problem.
Radiation therapy appears to extend this interval significantly, but this is based on anecdotal reports only. I couldn't find a study that supported this claim. We have had one patient with this condition who we did surgery on three times before the clients finally agreed to radiation therapy, which worked to prevent future recurrences entirely, as far as we could tell. The dog lived at least eight years after the last surgery and radiation therapy. Good luck with this.