Thanks, Michelle, for that website and for sharing your information. Best, best wishes to Fern!!
Love, Julie
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You might want to look at the Animal Cancer Institute's website and see if they have any open trials for new drugs for cats. My dog Fern, who has had a sarcoma for more than a year now, is on a trial antiangiogenic drug through them which works by preventing the tumor from creating new blood vessels by which to spread and grow. It has not put her into remission, but we believe it has slowed the cancer growth a lot and she was given an estimate of a lot less time going the conventional radiation and chemo route. Apparently the drug she is on, Thrombospondin, works best on sarcomas, they are finding. I think they have other trials going on as well. They only implement their trials through oncologists, I think, so you would have to take her to the far-away oncologist, but perhaps not more than once per month (that's how often Fern has to go). We give Fern her treatments at home by sub q shot.As for strengthening her immune system, I would put her on Essiac Tea (order bulk from Blessed Herbs, over the internet), CoQ10, and something like Immugen or Moducare (Immugen you have to get from a holistic vet; Moducare is sold in health food stores). I would not do too much more than that. I did more herbs with my two who had lymphoma two years ago (which I had done chemo now!), and they were so stressed out by it.Sorry for the news but glad it is a less agressive kind of cancer.MichelleMichelle
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is
to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated."
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
Paws Come WITH Claws!!!
If you're thinking about de-clawing your cat, you need to re-think your decision to acquire a pet.
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