Is it true that if a female dog is not sterile, she would have a higher chance of getting cervix cancer?

Answer 1

If a female is spayed before her first heat she has less than 1% chance of developing mammary cancer, after her first heat it goes up to 7% and after her third heat up to 28%. An unspayed female can also develop tumors in her uterus, on her ovaries and can end up with pyrometra which is a uterine infection that would require an emergency hysterectomy to prevent death.

Answer 2

Yes. Spaying a female dog also completely eliminates the risk of ovarian or uterine cancer and uterine infections. Sterilized females are also at a much lower risk of developing mammary cancers. Similarly, neutered male dogs almost never develop prostate cancer and enlarged prostate.

Answer 3

Yes it is true.

Mammary tumors are also a common problem that is linked to whether or not they are spayed. Spaying a female at 6 mo decreases her chance significantly and her chances of developing mammary cancer are almost 0. After her first heat cycle, her chances increase but not significantly. However, there is a dramatic increase in her chances in mammary tumors after a female goes through 2 heat cycles.

That is why it is recommended to spay your dog around 6 mo.

Answer 4

When we got our puppy (4 mo old), she was already spayed- the vet said that was wonderful because he said that many unfixed female dogs will get tumors and the uterine infection that has been mentioned. He said the survival rate isn't high, the pain is high, the cost is high, the emotional cost on the family is high!

It's not about making her "sterile" and unable to get pregnant, it's about removed the uterus- the part that carries the pups- and therefore eliminating the part that gets infected.

Answer 5

I assume you mean spayed rather than sterile.

'Yes' is the answer. Unspayed females are at higher risk from cervical and mammary tumours as well as pyometra - everything people have said on here.

The other day we had a pyometra case in the surgery - and an unspayed b itch with a mammary tumour the size of a melon! I spent the rest of the day ranting about people who don't spay their b itches! (not accusing you of being one of them)

Chalice

Answer 6

Yes and it is not pretty.
Spayed female pets are less likely to develop breast cancer or pyometra (a common uterine infection in unspayed females). http://www.foxvalleypets.org/dogs/?details=19&page=122

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=adopt_spayneuter

Answer 7

Uterin cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer....yes, an unspayed female has a chance of developing any of them.

Answer 8

Unfortunately, yes.

Answer 9

Yes, but the big worry is mastitis not cervical cancer.

Answer 10

I have no idea ask a vet