Dog Cancer Stories: There is Hope!

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Dog Cancer Treatment Options
This website is about dogs who have faced the challenge of their life - cancer - and won. It is possible to treat canine cancer effectively. Cancers such as Canine Lymphoma, Canine osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and Canine mouth cancer can be overcome. This is a scary time, trying to figure out the best options for treating your dog's cancer. We hope you find encouragement here. There is hope in overcoming dog tumors.

I want to start of this page with a hearty THANK YOU to the folks at Aloha Medicinals for helping my dog overcome the fight of her life - Cancer. They were so good to deal with, always taking time to speak with me and sending reference material to my vet. They even took time to explain the lab work, helping me understand what all those numbers meant. Keep up the good work! I love my dogs and without your excellent help and support, I don't know what I would have done. Here is their website: Aloha Medicinals Inc. They even have a canine info hotline where you can call and get answers on your dog cancer questions. (831) 426-2209

Cancer is the leading cause of death for American dogs (after automobile accidents). Many veterinarians believe this is due to the diet we feed our dogs. Dogs have evolved for millions of years on a diet of raw meat, but now we feed them a diet consisting primarily of grains. Rice, corn and wheat are the main ingredients of most commercial dog foods. While a young and healthy dog will do well for a while on this diet, by the time they are 10 or 12, most will eventually come down with cancer. Bone, liver, lymph and Haemangiosarcomas are the most common.

Fortunately there is hope. Dogs respond better than any other animal to cancer treatment. Chemo therapy does not work well for dogs. Radiation can be useful, and surgery is often a good option. But all of these treatments are simply treating the symptoms though, removing the tumor. The cause of cancer is first and foremost an Immune System Dysfunction. When the immune system fails to recognize the cancer cells as invaders, the body can not fight the disease. Immune modulation therapy is the only cure. While there are several veterinary immunomodulators on the market, most do not work very well. They are targeted for the pet owners wallet rather than the dog's cancer. There is one that stands out however: K9 Immunity from Aloha Medicinals.

K9 Immunity works Really well! I speak from experience, having treated several dogs with this product and seen with my own eyes results like in the pictures above. Looking at the pictures, it is hard to believe this is the even same dog. And this is after 2 vets both said "put her down, there is nothing that can be done". Now, more than 2 years later, she is completely healthy. Thank God I did not listen to those two vets!

K9 Immunity is made in America, all organic and it is made from the most widely prescribed class of anti-cancer medicine used in the world today. It is effective in about 7 out of 10 dog cancer patients. It is best seen as part of a treatment plan, and you or your vet can get plenty of literature and information from the manufacturer on how best to use this. It is affordable, quick acting and works better than anything else on the market. It is available direct from the manufacturer and does not require a prescription.

This is the 21st century cure for canine cancer. You owe it to your dog friend to find out all you can about this, and if it is appropriate for your pet, use it to effectively treat the cancer. You can buy K9 Immunity direct from the manufacturer here: K9 Immunity or you can reach them by telephone at (831) 426-2059

A success story from my friend Jim:

Steppenwolf

Update January 10, 2005:  Steppenwolph continues to do well.  He had a
follow-up visit at UGA last week.  He has had a small problem in his left
eye lately...a delayed reaction to the radiation.  But no cancer issues
still.  That's the important thing!  And the hair he lost has grown back
quickly and nicely (faster than expected of course).  Other than a little
more gray hair on his face you can't tell he had the treatments.

Steppenwolf July 2004: I don't know if you recall speaking to me on the phone back in June. My 12 year old dog, Steppenwolph, had just been diagnosed with nasal  adenocarcinoma in his left nostril, a very aggressive tumor.  He had several  nose bleeds prior that lead us to the cancer diagnosis.  The week I
received your K9 Immunity product he had a very serious bleeding episode that put him in the ICU of a local emergency vet hospital for three days.  They had a very hard time stopping the bleeding.  His doctors told me to prepare for the worse. They had not seen a nasal tumor bleed like this and felt it may have
progressed too far to do anything about it. At this point, he had not seen an oncologist yet.  We had been referred to the University of Georgia teaching hospital and had our first appointment scheduled the day after his release from ICU.  He was very weak and I feared there wasn't anything they could do for him but I drove him to Athens, GA anyway.  They gave him an exam and felt if he could take a week to recover with no new problems we could look at the possibility of radiation therapy.  I continued giving him the K9 Immunity 4 caps per day.  I also received some herb treatments from another source during this week and started him on  those as well.  His red blood cell count improved and he started feeling much better. On our next visit to the University they were very impressed at how well he was doing.  He received a full exam including ultra sound of his organs and  full pre-anesthesia work up.  A CAT scan of his nose showed that the tumor had completely filled the left side of his nose but had not invaded the bone or broken passed the nasal cavity.  His blood count was still low but improving daily.  With the exception of the tumor and anemia he was in perfect health.  We started the radiation treatments right away.  12 treatments for 4 weeks, including 10mg of Prednisone daily to decrease the tumor's inflammation and Clavamox, and antibiotic to avoid a possible
secondary infection. The treatments went uneventfully with very little side effects or complications.  The anesthesia three times per week barely effected
him. Once we were done he had lost a little bit of hair around his left eye and had a little swelling of his left gums.  His doctors were amazed at
his turn around.  And so was my bank account...the cost of the treatment was $800 less than the estimate given!!  All due to the lack of "usual"
problems most dogs experience he didn't have. It has now been almost two months since he finished treatment.  We didn't go through the expense of more x-rays or CAT scan to see if the tumor actually shrunk.  But he can breath through the left side of his nose again! No more sneezing and not a drop of blood lost since July.  Steppenwolph is back to his pre cancer, happy, energetic self again. This type of cancer isn't curable with radiation.  About the best it
can do is give him another year or two of symptom free life.  But that doesn't count the help he has gotten from the K9 Immunity and other herbal treatments
he has been getting all this time.  And his doctors said something helped him during this period they didn't expect.  I'm planning on continuing those for the rest of his life.

Here is another success story: Zeke - Oct 2004

Hi  my name is Steve Mauriello I don't normally do things like this but I had to tell you my story and give my thanks.. my dog Zeke was diagnosed with malignant histiocytosis a fast moving potent form of cancer for which there is no cure in canines. In may of 2004 Zeke stopped eating and on that day I went to work thinking he had an upset stomach/ bug or something else but when I came home he still wouldn't eat so I called my local vet who said bring him in the next day, they then did the usual tests like blood work listened to his heart etc. nothing was found except that he was showing signs of severe anemia .. pale white gums. the next day i took him to a veterinary hospital where they could do a lot more testing and had the latest equipment also i wanted to get him well and get to the bottom of this, by now he was showing signs of general weakness and he was getting wobbly on his legs. they suggested an ultrasound, x-ray, more blood work, bone biopsy, and kidney values be done so they took him in and two hours later came out to see me with the most awful news i could imagine CANCER my beautiful loving Zeke has cancer they told me and if that wasn't bad enough they told me it was a type that dogs never do well with and with treatment (chemotherapy) he might live 4-months he had it in his spleen and bone marrow and his liver didn't look good either ..i was devastated here he was doing great and then just like that he has cancer, now here I was faced with having to make a decision I didn't want to make not knowing if i wanted to put him through the side effects of chemo or not, he was 10-1/2 years old now and for a Rottie that's getting pretty near his life expectancy although i always thought he would live for ever. they told me that they didn't understand much about this form of cancer being that it is so rare so they wanted me to bring Zeke to the New England Veterinary Oncology Group a specialty hospital for animals with cancer only, I was now wishing for a ray of hope. After meeting with a doctor there he did all sorts of the same tests again to Zeke and after 5-hours of testing he came to me and said he did have malignant histiocytosis and gave me the same odds as the other two doctors who examined and tested him, this doctor suggested aggressive Chemo be started that day so he gave me some pills to take home with rubber gloves and instructions on administering the chemo agent. I was trembling when I got home at the thought of poisoning my loving Zeke with these drugs. I tossed around in my head all day what I  should do and decided not to give the toxic drugs to Zeke. I now turned to the internet to search about malignant histiocytosis and what i found was even more bad news most dogs live an average (with chemo) of 2-4 months and with not that great a quality of life, I now did a search on canine cancer treatments and all kinds of products started to show up and that's how I found K9 Immunity. I  ordered a  bottle, when it arrived I gave Zeke 5 capsules in a small amount of home cooked chicken which was now all he would eat and not much of it at all, he was now down under 100 lbs in body weight and looked really bad my heart was broken just looking at him with his sad eyes, i gave him another 5-capsules that night and continued with this schedule, after about 4-weeks he seemed like he was looking more energetic I didn't want to get my hopes up too high but I continued with theK9 Immunity and around 7-weeks later he was now eating much better and had gained back 8 of his lost pounds. I can't tell you how I feel inside, I truly can't but I'm beyond happy! It has now been 6-months since his diagnosis and he is back up to his normal weight and looks super his appetite is the best it has ever been no-one can believe it's as good as it is and his energy level is like that of when he was around 3-years old, my vet is shocked and doesn't know what to say when I bring him in for checkups he wasn't supposed to be here but here he is and i'm so happy that words cant describe how I feel seeing him bounce back like this, there was nowhere else to turn and Zeke was going down so fast it was so sad to see him hurting like that...I'm  amazed. thank you from the bottom of mine and Zeke's heart  for this web site and this fantastic product ..in this case it was a life saver! Steve Mauriello and Zeke.

If your beloved dog has Cancer, please take the time to check out Aloha Medicinals website or they have a hotline where you can get all kinds of info on dog cancer treatment options. You can call them at (831) 426-2209. Maybe they can help!