The Boxer
The following diseases are reported to occur more frequently in the Boxer than in the general dog population. In some cases the disease either has, or is believed to have, a genetic, hereditary cause but many of the diseases listed here do not have a proven genetic basis. 

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Alimentary tract diseases
This section includes diseases that involve the mouth, oesophagus (gullet), stomach, small intestine (duodenum and ileum), large intestine (colon and rectum), liver and pancreas.

Diseases involving the mouth

• Dysplasia of the temperomandibular joint
• Oropharyngeal cancer

Diseases affecting the gullet (oesophagus)

Diseases involving the pancreas

Diseases affecting the small intestine

• Inflammatory bowel disease

Diseases affecting the stomach

• Pyloric stenosis (congenital antral hypertrophy)

Diseases affecting the large intestine

• Perianal cancer
• Histiocytic colitis
• Chronic colitis
• Mastocytoma

Cancer

• Chemodectoma
• Chondrosarcoma (rib)
• Fibromatous/ossifying epulis
• Gingival neoplasia
• Haemangioma (skin)
• Haemangiopericytoma
• Haemangiosarcoma (skin)
• Histiocytoma (skin)
• Insulinoma
• Lymphoma (non-epitheliotrophic)
• Lymphosarcoma
• Mast cell tumours
• Melanoma
• Oral neoplasia
• Osteosarcoima (skull)
• Phaeochromocytoma
• Pituitary tumour (hyperadrenocorticism)
• Primary brain tumours
• Sertoli cell tumours
• Squamous cell carcinoma (skin)
• Thyroid neoplasia
• Uveal melanoma

Heart valve disorders

• Aortic stenosis 
• Pulmonic Stenosis

Abnormal development of major blood vessels to the heart

Heart muscle disease

• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• Myocardial neoplasia

Heart chambers

• Atrial septal defect

Other

• Chemodectoma
• Pericardial effusion
• Sick sinus syndrome

Diseases of the eyeball

• Anterior uveal melanoma

Diseases of the eyelids

• Distichiasis
• Ectropion
• Entropion

Diseases of the third eyelid (nictitating membrane)

• Prolapse

Diseases of the cornea

• Corneal endothelial dystrophy
• Refractory corneal ulcer

Diseases of the lens

Hormonal (Endocrine) diseases

• Cushing's disease (hyperadrenocorticism)
• Hypoestrogenism
• Hypothyroidism
• Insulinoma
• Phaeochromocytoma
• Thyroid neoplasia 

Immune system diseases

Kidney and Urinary Tract disease

• Urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence (incontinence)

Liver diseases

Nervous system diseases

• Congenital deafness (esp. white)
• Meningitis and polyarteritis
• Primary brain tumours
• Progressive axonopathy

Skin diseases

• Atopy
• Calcinosis circumscripta
• Canine Acne
• Cushing's disease (hyperadrenocorticism)
• Coccidiomycosis 
• Demodicosis
• Dermoid sinus (rare)
• Ehler-Danlos syndrome (asthenia)
• Follicular dysplasia (flank)
• Follicular cyst
• Food hypersensitivity
• Granuloma (sterile)
• Hypoestrogenism
• Mast cell tumours
• Muzzle folliculitis/furunculosis
• Oestrogen-responsive dermatosis
• Pododermatitis
• Pyogranuloma
• Sertoli cell tumours
• Skin tumours
• Solar dermatitis (trunk)
• Sternal calluses
• Superficial pyoderma
• Squamous cell carcinoma

Other diseases

• Drug reactions :
  • Acepromazine
• Coccidiomycosis
• Cryptorchidism
• Vaginal hyperplasia
• Vertebral heart score is higher than most breeds