Is there a possibility that anesthesia can trigger an immune response causing lymphoma in dogs?

Had a min poodle who developed swollen lymph nodes 2 weeks after a dental. Thought it was an infection from the dental. Turned out to be lymphoma and within a month..he passed away. This was a healthy playful 11yr old min poodle. The vet said that sometimes anesthesia can trigger an immune response...so I was wondering if it is the anesthesia itself causing the lymphoma. This has also happened to my friend's dog, therefore, I'm concerned and hopeful that anesthesia for dentals will be a thing of the past one day soon. Too many coincidences and too much unknowns. I'm to the point of buying the dental devices and cleaning my dog's teeth myself....

Is there a possibility that anesthesia can trigger an immune response causing lymphoma in dogs?
No. Anesthesia itself does not cause lymphoma. What it can do is lower the body's defenses where a cancer that is starting flares sooner than it would have. Unfortunately, your dog would have developed lymphoma anyways. Not a question of if, only when.





I have heard of anesthesia free dentals, but the fact is that they are not very thorough. They can only do as much as the animals will let them and cannot clean the interior sides of the teeth. Not to mention if they needed more work than just a cleaning. Extracting a tooth or doing a root canal on an awake animal will never happen.





Unfortunately there are always risks with anesthesia. The best you can hope for is that you have done all the necessary pre-anesthetic screening to reduce anesthetic complications.


(bloodwork, x-rays).





I'm very sorry for you and your pet. It's hard when good owners such as yourself, who try and do what they can to take good care of their pets, get dealt a hand such as this.
Reply:I've never heard of it myself.





But as far as buying the tools and doing it yourself, that's difficult if not completely impossible.





Sure, if you use a toothbrush and paste, that's possible.





But dentals use all sorts of tools to scrape and blast off the built on gunk that builds on teeth. A brush can't do that. And if someone has a dog that will let them do a full dental on while not under anesthetic, I want to find out how they did it.

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