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03/09/2010 08:49 PM
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Essiac: Could It Cause What It?s Treating?? |
For years, Essiac has been touted as an herbal anti-cancer remedy. It got a lot of publicity and press, and has become entrenched in the minds of the alternative health community.
It is used to a great extent, and some use it for dog cancer treatment. Let’s look at this a little closer.
Many are familiar with [...]
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03/05/2010 12:43 PM
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Intestinal Cancer and Curcumin for Dogs |
Dogs will occasionally get tumors involving the stomach and intestine. Not as commonly as humans do, but we see it nonetheless. And for those dealing canine cancer, it does not matter how common one or another cancer is if your dog has it!
One of the approaches used to help these cancers are certain chemotherapy drugs. [...]
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02/28/2010 04:14 AM
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The Shock of Dog Cancer |
I was recently helping an English Lab named Amber. Amber was diagnosed with a mast cell tumor by fine needle aspirate. Amber?s humans, Beau and Heather, were devastated upon hearing this news.
Like many dog lovers, they had heard that dogs could get cancer. Sure. Dogs can get the same diseases as people, right? However, for [...]
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02/28/2010 03:58 AM
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What Makes Canine Lymphoma Different? |
Canine lymphoma, also called lymphosarcoma, is a strange cancer. Not that cancer is not strange in general, because it is. But lympho is different.
This cancer involves a certain type of white blood cell, the lymphocyte. Most have heard that white blood cells are an important part of the immune system. It turns out there is more [...]
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02/21/2010 06:56 PM
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Making Time for Full Spectrum Dog Cancer Care |
There is a big difference between coming up with an idea to do something, and doing it.
We humans are very good at deciding that we should do. The problem is that many times we sort of lose track of this focus, and don’t totally follow through.
This is a very important issue when it comes to [...]
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02/17/2010 05:02 AM
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Mirtazapine for Dog Cancer |
Dear Dog Lovers,
A newer drug is being used frequently lately, and I would like to make sure everyone dealing with a canine cancer diagnosis has heard of it. This medication may help some dogs out there, so let’s keep everyone up to date.
The drug is mirtazapine, also called Remeron.
The medication is a very effective appetite [...]
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02/08/2010 03:25 AM
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Dog Cancer Tests: Blood, Urine and More? |
Healthy dogs should have early detection cancer screens. The reason for this is that veterinarians often fail to eradicate cancer in a given dog. The fact that cancer is the single number one cause of dog death should make this clear.
If you have a dog of about 10 years of age or more, statistics show [...]
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01/31/2010 09:33 PM
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Dog Prostate Cancer: Intraoperative Radiation |
Prostate cancer in the dog is very different from that in people. Not because the cancers themselves are that different, but because treatment success is different.
This has not been good news for our dogs. The success rates (due to surgical techniques, mainly) for dealing with human prostate cancer are much better than for dogs.
However those [...]
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01/26/2010 01:55 AM
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Escaping Dog Cancer Days, part 2 |
In the last post we looked at a challenging topic:
being happy and at the same time time coping with canine cancer.
Since so much of humanity’s attention is on the pursuit of this commodity (happiness), let’s spend a little more time on it. One of the previous points made was that it can seem like a [...]
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01/25/2010 12:23 AM
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Escaping Dog Cancer Days |
Most, if not all of the readers of the Dog Cancer Blog have an interest in being happy.
Why not? Dealing with a dog cancer diagnosis can be the most challenging and daunting task faced in some one’s life. During this time it can be quite a struggle to be happy. The sadness, frustration and sinking [...]
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