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Featuring Demian Dressler, DVM and Sue Ettinger, DVM, Dip. ACVIM (Oncology), authors of The Dog Cancer Survival Guide

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Calcium Tablets May Contain Carcinogenic Lead

…dog. After hanging up, I thought I should get some information together for everyone. In the past, we have used oyster shell calcium. Well, no more. Recent research shows that…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Causes | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 4: The Dog Cancer Diet

Pain Meds for Dogs: How to Manage Pain for a Dog With Cancer

…and/or chronic, long-term pain. They can be combined with the other drugs above to smooth out and relax dog cancer patients. They come as tablets and in some cases liquid….

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Collection: Articles | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Managing Pain | Your Role as Your Dog's Guardian

My Dog is Young…and Has Cancer??

…normal life expectancy, I feel tolerating some side effects in the short term are justified. Another reason for being more aggressive with treatments in young cancer patients is their cancers…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Chemotherapy | Diagnosis | Emotional Management | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | How Did This Happen? | Mast Cell Tumors

Using the Full Spectrum Approach: Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Dogs with Cancer

…the term “complementary” therapies because they complement, or work alongside allopathic care. But whether you want to use ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ the point is you may want to seek other…

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Collection: Articles | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Diagnosis | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Your Role as Your Dog's Guardian

Is Peanut Butter Bad for Dogs?

…acute aflatoxin poisoning were exposed to. Is 15 parts per billion that low enough to prevent long-term damage over years of eating peanut butter? It’s hard to tell, of course,…

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Collection: Articles | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 4: The Dog Cancer Diet

Dog Cancer Caregiver Stress: Taking Care of Yourself So You Can Take Care of Your Dog

…free in terms of dollars and cents, they aren’t free in terms of energy, time, and emotion. It is really natural to feel a lot of … feelings … as…

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Collection: Articles | Emotional Management | Your Role as Your Dog's Guardian

Osteosarcoma: when amputation is not an option

…therapy releases pain-killing endorphins. Chemotherapy treatments given in addition to palliative radiation has also been associated with better long-term results than palliative radiation alone. Limb-spare surgery: still surgery, but the…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Osteosarcoma

Primary Lung Tumors, part 2

…surgery is recommended as it offers the best chance for long term survival. Dogs that have a solitary (one) lesion, which is less than 5 cm in diameter, negative lymph…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Chemotherapy | Diagnosis | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Osteosarcoma | Surgery | Transitional Cell Carcinoma

Ginseng, a common Chinese herb, For Dog Cancer

…likely work to help in cancer patients by decreasing inflammation. Long term, microscopic inflammation in the body is linked to most cancers, as you will read about in your Guide….

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Collection: Articles | Chemotherapy | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 4: The Dog Cancer Diet | Surgery

Osteosarcoma: when amputation is not an option, part 2

…also recommend chemotherapy. Chemotherapy after amputation, CyberKnife SRS, or limb spare surgery is important to delay metastasis and for long term survival. We will talk about that next. Thanks for…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Osteosarcoma

Staying Vigilant with Mass Aspirates

…your dog. Low and intermediate grades of soft tissue sarcomas are very treatable and have excellent long-term survival rates (some up to five years). The recommended treatments include surgery and/or…

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Collection: Articles | Chemotherapy | Found a Bump/Lump on My Dog | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments

My Experience with CyberKnife RadioSurgery

…fracturing. What hasn’t changed is that chemotherapy after CyberKnife is just as important as chemotherapy after amputation to delay metastasis and for long term survival. Finally we have treated various…

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Collection: Articles | Found a Bump/Lump on My Dog | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Surgery

What’s new with oral malignant melanoma?

…those who responded also had long-term durable responses. Basically, this therapy is beneficial for some people, and not for others. One of the things that needs to be discovered: is…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Chemotherapy | Diagnosis | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Melanoma

When to Avoid Chemo for Canine Mast Cell Tumors?

…means to save her. I have read nearly every blog on your website and searched the internet for hours hoping I could find something that would help me determine the…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Chemotherapy | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Mast Cell Tumors

Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma

…were no significant differences in the protocols when measuring how long the patients remained tumor-free, and survival times. As always the case with research abstracts, we will need to wait…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Type | Chemotherapy | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Osteosarcoma

Lumps On Dogs: When To Get Them Checked By A Veterinarian

…cancer however, take a deep breath and don’t panic. Find out what it is, and the stage, which helps indicate how far it may have spread. If you search ‘biopsy’…

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Collection: Articles | Featured | Found a Bump/Lump on My Dog | Prognosis | Surgery

Chemotherapy toxicity in dog cancer: Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC)

…they showed up, but we eventually gave up on that as it didn’t make sense to make him go through more surgery. He even returned to work as a search

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Collection: Articles | Chemotherapy | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments

You Really Treat Dogs and Cats Who Have Cancer?

…Specialists in Mathews, NC. and let our boy go free. Good luck in your research. Jesse in Virginia. For Jean Jean, You might want to contact Texas A&M Vet school….

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Collection: Articles | Chemotherapy | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Diagnosis | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Surgery

Anti-oxidants versus Pro-Oxidants

…to name a few that pop into mind for dogs with mast cell tumors. I blogged on these so you can search for them and wrote about them in my…

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Collection: Articles | Cancer Causes | Chemotherapy | Full Spectrum Cancer Care | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 3: Immune Supplements and Anti-Metastatic Supplements

The Premature Frenzy: Resveratrol

…Institute of Health’s (search box: resveratrol)were all for naught and people should abandon the idea of using it altogether until the ‘drug’ SRT501 is introduced and according to you is…

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Collection: Articles | Choosing Treatments with Confidence | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 1: Conventional Treatments | Full Spectrum Cancer Care Step 3: Immune Supplements and Anti-Metastatic Supplements

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