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Dog Cancer Diet What to Feed a Dog with Cancer
Transcript of: Dog Cancer Diet What to Feed a Dog with Cancer James Jacobson: What happens when your dog has cancer? Do you have to change your dog’s diet? Dr. Dressler, I know you write a lot about the dog cancer diet in your book, but what is the role of diet once the dog already has cancer? Dr. Demian Dressler: Well, a dog cancer diet is a critical piece of the clinical management of cancer. A lot of the thoughts that I put into the PDF “Dog…
Watch the VideoDog Cancer and Apoptosis and Apoptogens
…ing out derange cells. When the cell becomes deranged, when it becomes pre-cancerous, or cancerous or other situation, say if it’s infected, or it’s injured or other variety of different derangements that can happened in a cell to screwed it up, the cell is supposed to, in many cases, turn on specific genes that cause it to simply destroy itself. It’s a very quiet process when we talk about cell suicide it sounds very violent because suicide is a…
Watch the VideoFeeding Carcinogenic Foods After You Dog has Cancer
…mean is that cancers can change over a time. When we’re trying to treat a cancer, if the cancer shifts and changes to a more resistant type of cancer able to stand the treatment, then we lose ground. Carcinogens, cause changes in DNA that make the DNA change further and my opinion is can, if we expose pets to further carcinogens can increase the mutation rate of the cancers and potentially favor more resistant forms of cancer developed. James Jac…
Watch the VideoWhich Dog Cancers are Best Treated with Chemotherapy
…, that’s another cancer that we treat with chemo. There are a lot of solid cancers, cell cancer that starts in one part of the body, but if they have a very high chance of spreading, typically, chemotherapy will be recommended after the primary cancer is treated either with surgery or radiation. So again, that’s gonna be really important information to ask your Veterinarian or an Oncologist if your dog has a solid cancer that’s a malignant cancer,…
Watch the VideoShould You See an Oncologist for Your Dog’s Cancer
…. Then we will really gonna talk to the owners about the biopsy, about the diagnosis of cancer and we can make some generalizations of how this cancer behaves. Is it a malignant cancer, is it going to spread? One of the really things that’s super important is to figure out has it spread at time of diagnosis, so for different cancers it may be different but we may do some chest X-rays or CT scans or ultrasounds that are gonna help us figure out has…
Watch the VideoWelcome to Dog Cancer Answers- Meet the Veterinarians
…uring the dog cancer journey for guardian for a human dealing with the dog cancer diagnosis, but also addresses all of the different areas that up to this point have been very disorganize and unexamined diet and supplements outside the box of therapeutics, and acupuncture, homeopathy and touch therapies are always different things that up to this point have not had a very critical evaluation to see okay what really works here in this “alternative…
Watch the VideoPerianal & Anal Sac Tumors- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…that you addressed in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide are Perianal, Anal Sac Cancers, cancers of the rear end. I guess I’ll throw this to you first Dr. Dressler, what are the signs and symptoms that you might be looking at if your dog has one of these cancers? Dr. Demian Dressler: These cancers are similar to some other cancers like such as cancers that occur in the mouth and the oral cavity and that many times they’re not noticed right off the bath…
Watch the VideoMetronomic Chemotherapy for Dog Cancer
…g the cancer cells directly, you actually targeting the blood vessels that feed those cancers and allow them to get bigger than about a centimeter which is about the size of most people’s thumb now. So, if you can target those blood vessels, those cancer cells can’t get nutrients, they can’t get blood supply and they’re not gonna get bigger. Again that is called antigiogenesis, and that’s the goal of metronomic chemotherapy. James Jacobson: Do you…
Watch the VideoCancer Cachexia and Dog Cancer- When Your Dog Won’t Eat
…als do is they instead shift the body’s metabolism so that the body is now feeding the cancer as opposed to feeding itself. James Jacobson: So, that sounds like a pretty serious situation because the dog doesn’t wanna eat. Dr. Demian Dressler: Yeah, when you combined that with a lack of intake, caloric intake, we have this weight loss and that’s really what cachexia is, it’s the loss usually of muscle mass that’s connected with the cancer cells. n…
Watch the VideoMelanoma- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…lp, and we always need to remember to restore good brain chemistry to anti-cancer state, a cancer fighting state and these can be done by deliberately increasing our joys in life and our life quality efforts so we can have the longest, happiest life possible. James Jacobson: Dr. Ettinger, Dr. Dressler, thank you so much. There’s a lot more information on melanomas in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide. We thank you both for joining us today. Dr. Susan…
Watch the VideoGetting a Second Opinion on Your Dog’s Cancer Diagnosis
…elf. I usually do recommend that unless it’s a very straightforward simple cancer diagnosis. James Jacobson: Dr. Dressler, what are your thoughts about getting a second opinion and how do you actually go about asking for one? Dr. Demian Dressler: Well, if a guardian ever asks me, “Hey Dr. D, I’d like to go get a second opinion.” I’ll say, “You know what, I think that’s a really good idea.” It’s really, really important for a guardian to get all of…
Watch the VideoNasal Tumors – What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…And it allows the nasal cancer to be treated instead of fifteen to twenty treatments and three treatments were just less trips to the hospital, less anaesthesias for your pets and actually less side effects with very comfortable treatment efficacy. So, again this is an evolving field, there are some newer treatment options out there and definitely, some new things to learn about. James Jacobson: Well, and if you’re looking at cyberknife, we have…
Watch the VideoCyberknife Use with Dog Cancer- Cutting Edge Technology
…e advantage of cyberknife is that we can treat their tumor in one to three treatments. If it’s three treatments it’s done in consecutive days. The alternative is fifteen to twenty treatments with daily anaesthesia which is required for dogs for radiation therapy. Again, one of the other differences besides decreased number of treatments again one to three decreased numbers of anaesthesia, decreased number of trips to the hospital; is also we’re ge…
Watch the VideoDog Breeds Most Likely to get Cancer
…certainly, the size of the dog can impact which of the different types of cancer when we are talking about bone cancer in particular. There’s other physical characteristic such as pigmentation, Chow Chows, Poodles, and breeds that have pigmentation inside of their mouth. You may see more cases of malignant melanoma which is a pigmented cancer that occur inside the mouth. I’m not sure if you see this Dr. Ettinger or not where you practice, but it…
Watch the VideoDog Cancer Diagnosis Not An Immediate Death Sentence
…ing and incapacitating and many, many times when a guardian receives a dog cancer diagnosis from a Veterinarian, they will start to experience anticipatory grief before anything bad has really happened or anything that’s really significant in terms of the well-being of the dog. So it’s important to realize that in many, many cases we are experiencing grief for something that hasn’t even happened yet. We have abundant time and many cases were we ca…
Watch the VideoOral Cancers- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…f the cancers that you talk about in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide is oral cancers, cancers of the mouth. Dr. Dressler, if you’re looking at a dog who has oral cancer, what are the signs and symptoms that you might be seeing? Dr. Demian Dressler: I’ll be honest, these tumors are most commonly at least in my experience found by Veterinarians during a physical exam. And the reason for this is that, it’s only in the later stages where we see signs at…
Watch the VideoPalladia™ and Dog Cancer- What You Need to Know
…James Jacobson: Ok. Dr. Ettinger of New York, Dr. Dressler in Hawaii, thank you so much for being with us. More information, a lot more information on Palladia and all sorts of different cancer treatments both chemotherapy and natural in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide. Thank you both. Dr. Demian Dressler & Dr. Susan Ettinger: Thank you….
Watch the VideoDog Cancer Surgery When is Surgery a Good Option
…aii. Dr. Demian Dressler: Well, one of the most basic ways of dealing with cancer is removal of cancer cells. Therefore, whenever we can remove cancer cells, it’s a good idea. Now, how do you go about removing cancer cells? There’s a lot of different ways of dealing with cancer cells. Surgery is a way to get cancer cells out of the body. The best time to use surgery is when we can get the cancer cells and remove them entirely from the dog’s body c…
Watch the VideoYour Emotions and Your Dog’s Cancer
…huge thing if you think back to the moment when you actually heard the dog cancer diagnosis from the Veterinarian you know what I’m talking about, your entire world feels as if it’s been turned upside down and it’s such a huge part of coping with dog cancer that it’s the type of thing that can either make the experience a horrible, horrible nightmare and pure living hell for everybody or it can in some cases if managed properly make the experience…
Watch the VideoAll Natural, Homeopathic & Holistic Approaches to Dog Cancer Care
…talk to an expert who can help you, guide you through all of the holistic treatments or all of the conventional treatments and then pick what is really best and you don’t have to pick one or the other. I think that’s where a lot of people feel torn is that they don’t think they can do both. I think you can do a little bit of both very safely. Again, you just probably gonna have to bring two experts together and work as a team. James Jacobson: Tha…
Watch the VideoDog Cancer Remission- What Can You Expect
…ion? Dr. Demian Dressler: I think it depends on the definition of the word cancer, because usually when we think of cancer we think of “systemic malignancies”, and a systemic means that it’s involved in a system or the whole body, it spread, and the malignancy means it’s aggressive, progressive and does not stop dangerous. However, there are growths that our cancerous growths that can actually be cured in veterinary medicine. Those are usually loc…
Watch the VideoLymphoma- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…u Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer James Jacobson: One of the types of cancers that you talk about in the dog cancer survival guide is lymphoma. First of all, I will start with you Dr. Dressler. What are the signs and symptoms that a dog guardian might see if the dog has lymphoma? Dr. Demian Dressler: Lymphoma is a strange cancer and that lymphoma is starts as a spread cancer. Usually doesn’t form a single bump. Lymphoma many times is discover…
Watch the VideoDog Cancer Surgery- The Importance of Clean Margins
…lk about “clean margins” we’re saying, ok, the pathologist didn’t find any cancer cells on the edge of the submitted specimen, so, maybe the cancer cells are out of the dog, or we can say we have dirty margins where the pathologist found cancer cells along the edge and therefore we can say very likely that there are still cancer cells left at surgical sight around the edges of the incision. James Jacobson: What happens if you don’t get clean margi…
Watch the VideoWhy Didn’t My Vet Catch My Dog’s Cancer Earlier
…n to the guardian. There can be a sense of frustration because we have the diagnosis of cancer and many times there’s a feeling, “Okay I have to blame somebody, there’s some anger some aggravation and its completely natural, however, just to soothe that feeling a little bit one has to look at biology and understand a couple of different things. The first thing is that a veterinary patient one of our loved pets does not do any self-exam, it can’t s…
Watch the VideoHemangiosarcoma- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…e of the cancers where the survival times are as long as some of the other cancers and it’s a hard cancer for everyone involved. James Jacobson: Dr. Dressler, any final thoughts on treatment options for Hemangio? Dr. Demian Dressler: Yeah, many times surgery is something that will get the dog out of the immediate crisis that is remove the source of blood loses if it is from a bleeding internal tumor which is one of the most common presentations. W…
Watch the VideoAmputation for Dogs with Osteosarcoma Cancer
…in for the surgery because the surgery is only gonna deal with half of the cancer. So, for most malignant cancers we talk about two things, the local disease which is in the primary bone for this cancer where it is growing. At the shoulder joint, or the knee joint, it’s not at the joint but one of the bones in that area. So, that’s the local disease and so amputation is gonna deal with local disease. Again, the cancer growing in the bone, but agai…
Watch the VideoMammary Tumors- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…think using all of the different tools that we have in our tool box with these cancers is very, very critical to have the best longest life with their dogs. James Jacobson: There is a tremendous amount of information on mammary cancer in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide. I wanna thank both of you Veterinarians for joining us today. Dr. Ettinger in New York, and Dr. Dressler in Hawaii, thank you. Dr. Demian Dressler: Thank you! Dr. Susan Ettinger: Tha…
Watch the VideoVomiting and Dog Cancer- What You Need to Know
…or you Dr. Ettinger your thoughts on dogs that are vomiting when they have cancer and what you can do about it? Dr. Susan Ettinger: I can start on this one I think vomiting is something that you see as a result of the cancer itself. That’s due to the toxins that are released from it so sometimes patients will present as vomiting as one of their symptoms. and then also some of the treatments, specifically chemotherapy can cause vomiting in some pat…
Watch the VideoLife Expectancy vs. Gained Life Expectancy in Dog Cancer Treatments
…the life expectancy that we gain, in other words we look at the untreated cancer, and then we look at the treated cancer for, with a given therapy and we say, ok what’s the difference between those two? That’s the gained life expectancy. My belief is that, that’s actually more useful number to look at, or interval to look out, when we’re assessing whether or not to select a certain treatment. What do we get out of this if we compare the dog witho…
Watch the VideoHelp for Your Dog’s Nausea
…There’s nothing that you’re going to be reading that comes out of the dog cancer survival guide, the blog, the dog cancer diet that’s just sort of made up. It is all backed up by a good Science. So, anyway, the ginger which is one of the additions of the dog cancer diet has some anti-nausea effects. It blocks chemical signal called substance P and also some other inflammatory mediators that things cause inflammation in the tummy and it’s a really…
Watch the VideoTransitional Cell Carcinoma- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer James Jacobson: One of the cancers that you both talk about in the Dog Cancer Survival Guide is transitional cell carcinoma. I wanna first of all throw this to you Dr. Dressler, if you’re looking at transitional cell carcinoma, what likely are the signs and symptoms that a dog guardian is facing? Dr. Demian Dressler: Well, this tumor is most common cancer of the urinary tract that you see more in dog…
Watch the VideoBrain Tumors- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…u Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer James Jacobson: One of the types of cancers that you talk about in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide are brain tumors. Dr. Dressler I start with you first, if you have a dog who has a brain tumor, what are the likely signs and symptoms that you’re looking at? Dr. Demian Dressler: Brain tumors most commonly will happen in elderly dogs not everytime. In my experience in the most common signs of brain tumor would be…
Watch the VideoSoft Tissue Sarcomas- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer James Jacobson: One of the cancers that you talk about in The Dog Cancer Survival Guide are soft tissue sarcomas. Dr. Dressler, I’ll throw this question out to you first if your dog has soft tissue sarcoma, what do you likely looking at? What are the signs and symptoms? Dr. Demian Dressler: Well, soft tissue sarcoma as the name suggests, grows out of soft tissue or connective tissue. Now, that’s abou…
Watch the VideoKinavet ® CA1 and Dog Cancer- What You Need to Know
…n and also for people who have immune compromise, aids patients and also a cancer patients as it turns out human cancer patients, also hepatitis patients, and of course young children. So, do protect yourself in the way that Dr. Ettinger said because limiting exposure is very prudent. James Jacobson: Two new drugs available for dog cancer, talk to your Vet, talk to your Oncologist about that. Dr. Ettinger in New York, Dr. Dressler in Hawaii. Thank…
Watch the VideoDiagnosing Dog Cancer with a Biopsy or Fine Needle Aspirate
…less expensive. It can at least tell you whether the mass on your pet is a cancer, or an abcyst, or an infection, and at least gives you a place to start with your pet’s diagnosis. James Jacobson: Dr. Dressler, is that usually done under general anesthesia? Dr. Demian Dressler: It depends on what we’re talking about and what we’re testing. The superficial ones which is out on the skin, though is usually will start as Dr. Ettinger point it out with…
Watch the VideoFeeling Guilty About Your Dog’s Cancer
…nly environmental, but also dietary in lifestyle that increase the rate of cancers and there are generic factors which — nothing to do with anybody’s choices, and all these things were accountable for cancers in dogs right now. So, guilt really has no place at all in this equation. And it’s really sad, because there is a lot of pain and suffering that goes along with. James Jacobson: Dr. Ettinger, do you find this on your client’s common and felt…
Watch the VideoDiarrhea and Dog Cancer What You Need to Know
…consequence of not only the cancer but sometimes even the medications, the treatments that we use for cancer. It’s something that is unpleasant to the dog and also unpleasant to the guardian. Good news, though we can do different things to help with diarrhea we can alter the diet and there are variety of different prescriptions and supplements available as well, that can help improve this condition. James Jacobson: Dr. Ettinger in New York… Dr. Su…
Watch the VideoThe Full Spectrum Approach to Dog Cancer Care
…n: One of the most interesting things that you present in the book The Dog Cancer Survival Guide is this approach that you call the “full spectrum approach”. Dr. Dressler, what is the full spectrum approach and how do we use it? Dr. Demian Dressler: The full spectrum approach is embodied by avoiding personal bias. These means that we do not want to exclude things that may help our dogs, because we don’t like where the information came from. Here’s…
Watch the VideoAre You a Dog Lover or Dog Guardian- Helping Your Dog Survive Cancer
…anscript of: Are You a Dog Lover or Dog Guardian- Helping Your Dog Survive Cancer James Jacobson: Here’s an interesting question that I want to throw out to you first Dr. Dressler, what is the difference between being a dog lover and being a dog guardian? Dr. Demian Dressler: That’s an excellent question. There can be confusion in our minds not only as veterinarians but also as owners, “of dogs”. The confusion is this, on the one hand we want to e…
Watch the VideoMast Cell Tumors- What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer
…to Know About Your Dog’s Cancer James Jacobson: One of the common types of cancer that you guys both talk about in the dog cancers survival is mast cell tumors. I wanna first start off with you Dr. Dressler. What might a dog guardian see if their dog has been diagnosed with mast cell? Dr. Demian Dressler: That’s a tough question. The reason why it’s a tough question is because mast cell tumors are characterized by having a variable appearance. Tha…
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