My 10 yr old Cavy who has an enlarged heart and is on the usual medication  has now developed a lump on his neck  vets have done a needle aspiration on his lymph glands and on the lump it'self.  The tests have not revealed any nasties but he has since developed diarrhoea. That's being controlled a present  with Dia Stop and antibiotics.  Last night he wee'd his bed - not sure if it was lack of control or was unable to get our attention to go out.  The latter most unlikely as he sleeps next to us in a crate. A biopsy is not really an option as the anaesthetic would put him at great risk due to his heart condition.

The lymph glands will react if the dog is fighting infection.   Having enlarged glands doesn't necessarily mean Lymphoma.   Sadly I felt a large mass in one of our hounds.   Instead of doing a fine needle aspiration from there, my then vet went into his rear glands and sadly it came back with the last result I wanted to have to face.   He was going on 12 at the time, so after much discussion as you can imagine, we elected not to treat him at all.   He was actually perfectly well at the time.   And stayed that way for 6 months (to the point I started thinking the results were wrong).   At the end, he suddenly crashed.   I called him for his second meal of the day (unusual for starters as he'd normally have been there, front row centre) and he still didn't come so I went to find him - collapsed on the living room floor.   Called my husband home with the car to get him to our vet who gave him an injection to hopefully kick start him again - it didn't.  So the next morning we had to take him back to be pts.

If you are asking what to do - you can only be advised by your vet about what's now going on.   Just to say I didn't want to put my old boy through chemo. even if they do tolerate this usually, far more than we do.   it would still mean him going to and from the vet - with no real long-term prognosis.  So we gave him what time he had left, and then helped him.   My neighbour put an oldie through chemo, and said never again.

Sorry if I have missed something, but your subject says Lymphoma, then you say the needle aspiration showed nothing bad? Could you explain a bit further please?

My old Cavalier who had a bad heart for many years (from the age of 8 until he died at 15 he had a grade 6 murmur) became incontinent almost as soon as his heart got bad. It cannot be controlled by medication in male dogs, but we simply used belly bands and so that problem was easily solved. He had a lot of lumps as he got older, including a huge one on his neck (not by the lymph glands though) that meant he could not wear a collar (so we swapped to a harness), but I wasn't going to put him through anaesthetic and the lump never bothered him, and he certainly still had a nice long life -in fact he is to date the oldest dog I have ever had.

Sorry Goldali for misleading you  guess I am assuming the worst  almost back on his regular diet today so will see if that tightens things up  diddled the bed again last night but no sign of leaking during the day.. Back to the vets on Tuesday.