Cancer Cases

My 14 year old weenie dog was just diagnosed with prostate cancer and adenocarcinoma.  He was straining to poop are his only issues.  I’m told to feed him a wet diet and we started Piroxicam every third day.  I don’t know if chemo or radiation would be helpful or just stick with meds. Any advice on a plan and a good receipt oe wet food that would be helpful?

Dr. Steve's Advice - to review your conventional options, I encourage you to consult with an integrative oncologist like Dr. Kendra Pope or Dr. Erin Bannink. I believe both offer telemedicine services, and you should be able to track down their practices by Googling their names

To have any hope of resolving cancer holistically, your dog needs to be eating real food, not canned or kibble. If you haven't yet found a fresh meat-and-vegetable diet for your dog, make a move in that direction. There are recipes in the Featured posts on this page, from Gold Standard Herbs and Aleksandra Topic

Herbally speaking, we have had success in dogs on healthy real food diets by adding in "Blood moving" formulas for the abdomen, such as Kan Essentials' Dispel Stasis in the Middle Palace, and Dispel Stasis in the Lower Palace. To enhance these formulas and add additional anti-cancer effects, I would suggest also using Harmonize the Qi from the same company. You can access all of those formulas through Aleksandra Topic by following the instructions in this post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158575954706282/posts/1420037418560133/

Lastly, I assume your dog has been neutered. If not, that should also be one of the first steps you take, along with a healthy diet.

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Our beautiful three-year-old rescue weim Rowan was diagnosed with aggressive T cell lymphoma today. We are in shock. He began drinking excessive amounts of water about a month ago, and after getting his annual bloodwork checked, he was diagnosed with hypercalcemia. He is not acting sick besides drinking a lot of water. The prognosis is grim, maybe six months with chemo. He has been fed an ultra-clean, fresh food diet since we rescued him at one year old. He begins ozone therapy, Chinese herbs, and acupuncture tomorrow. Possibly mistletoe therapy later this week. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. 

Dr. Steve's Advice - I have a soft spot for Weims, so I hope you can get help for your dog. Here are some recent comments I've made regarding lymphoma: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158575954706282/search/... You're already doing the first step: getting a holistic consult.

Make sure that whatever else you do, you incorporate Minor Bupleurum in some way, as it will help reduce hypercalcemia and its deleterious effects on kidney function. As well, it is anti-neoplastic and will help combat that high thirst. A new version of this is available to vets from Natural Path via www.atimetohealherbs.com. It is called LSA Formula. Hopefully this gets you started.

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My girl was just diagnosed with liver cancer. Vets said her liver was taking up 75% of her abdomen. She is quickly losing weight (the reason I took her in in the first place). They prescribed steroids. I put her on those but also added in milk thistle, fish oil, CBD, a mixed mushroom tincture, and digestive enzymes. I would appreciate any and all recommendations on what to replace the steroid with, food recs (I’m lost here. Cancer diets are low/no carb so I’m worried she won’t gain the weight she needs?), and any other supplement I should start her on. She is 13 and weighs 19lbs (normal weight was 25).Thank you!!

Dr. Steve's Advice - The first thing I think for for the treatment of liver cancer (hepatocellular adenocarcinoma) in dogs is Dispel Stasis from the Middle Palace by Kan Essentials. It can often halt tumor growth, or maybe even shrink the tumor if we are lucky. You can source genuine versions of Kan Essentials products from Aleksandra Topic at aleks.topic1@gmail.com

I'm not sure I understand the use of steroids, but if they are trying to stimulate her appetite, an alternative is Six Gentle Pets by the same company. It is an antidote for cachexia, which is the term for the loss of appetite and wasting that attends many cancers. 

For each product, if you use them, find the dose for your dog's weight in the table at https://nphc.ca/using/dosage and give that amount twice daily at least

Here's hoping you can get your girl feeling better.

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This is my special little man Milo. He is a 15.5 year old pug. He came to me five and a half years ago with inoperable mast cell cancer.  My vet, Dr. Doug Kneuven, has been treating him with a raw diet and Kan Essentials Blood’s Palace. The tumor has shrunk significantly and he’s been doing great. He has greatly outlived his original prognosis of only having a few weeks to a few months to live. 

This past Wednesday we had a little bit of an emergency. Milo developed a very large ulcer on his right eye. My vet sent us immediately to our local emergency and specialty center so that he could be admitted until ophthalmology could see him the next day. His eye did in fact rupture and we decided the best course of action was to remove that eye. Despite his age he came through surgery great. 

When he was in the process of being admitted the emergency room vet was shall we say less than positive. She gave me a litany of everything that was wrong with him- age, cancer, severe spinal stenosis, chest is misshapen, and a new and somewhat concerning diagnosis of having gallbladder sludge. Obviously now that I know that it is there I’d like to prevent it from becoming an issue. 

I have two questions- first, what if any supplements or herbs or diet changes should I make concerning the gallbladder sludge. Secondly, is there anything that you recommend that I give Milo to preserve the health of his remaining eye?

Dr. Steve's Advice -  Milo looks very cute. And he is wearing a Superman costume like the dog on the Gold Standard Herbs website!

I would suggest a couple of small changes that you could ask Dr. Doug Kneuven about to address these problems. 

First I would change Blood's Palace to Dispel Stasis in the Palace of Blood since it is even more anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer. I would also ask him to add Harmonize the Qi (Minor Bupleurum or Xiao Chai Hu Tang) to your protocol. If the ulcer was preceded by immune keratitis, Harmonize the Qi will slow or halt its development in the other eye. It is also anti-cancer and synergistically interacts with Blood's Palace and Dispel Stasis. Lastly, it is one of my go-tos for gall bladder sludge. 

You should also add a choleretic western herb to the protocol, the most famous and common of which is simply Dandelion (the herb, not the root). You can often buy dandelion greens in the produce aisle to steam and add to his food, or pick up the tincture in a health food store.

Those changes should make a significant difference. Say hello to Doug for me!

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Cancer knocked on our door and my baby Mr. Gomez was just diagnosed with carcinoma. He was coughing a lot and we took him to the ER vet where they drained 6oz of fluid. The fluid cytology test has carcinoma cells in it. They think it’s in his chest. He has a couple of lumps there. Since I don’t want to put him through chemo or surgery, I researched holistic treatments and started putting him on Farmers Dog with supplements (Turkey Tail, seven shrooms, Green Rover and CBD oil). He’s still coughing a lot and I started giving him Marshmallow Root. He’s been on these supplements for about 3 days now. Wondering how long until I can see changes/improvement and if there is anything else I can do. He’s still eating and going potty. He’s 12 but before this episode, he has been very healthy and upbeat so it’s been very disorienting. My heart is shattered and any help/advice is appreciated. thank you 

Dr. Steve's Advice - Always, for pulmonary tumors, lean heavily on a real food diet and two herbal formulas from Kan Essentials: Dispel Stasis from the Palace of Blood, and Harmonize the Qi. You can obtain both of those from Aleksandra Topic at aleks.topic1@gmail.com

To the fresh food diet, I would add 1 clove of garlic a day (not a bulb, just a small piece of one); 1/4 tsp of turmeric to each meal; IP 6 (found online) and omega 3 fatty acids. If you make a start on all of the above and drain the fluid as needed in the interim, you should see your dog stabilize.

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I have 2 dogs, and in the past 3 days, I found out both probably have cancer.  I am waiting for lab results to confirm the 2nd, so I will post about her case later.  

My barely 9-year-old Lab, Bogie, was just diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma in his front wrist.  The lump didn't look like most sarcomas, it looked more like a lipoma (in an odd location), and the initial cytology came back inconclusive.  I decided to have it removed and biopsied.  It is Grade I, but they were not able to get clean borders (which I guess is common with this kind of cancer in this location).  The past couple of days, he seems lethargic, but I don't know if that is from his meds (the surgery site got infected, so he is on Amoxicillin/Clavulanate Potassium and Rimadyl), if he is just feeding off my emotions, or if there is something more going on.

He has an appointment with a radiology oncologist early next week, and he also has an appointment with his holistic vet in about 2 1/2 weeks.  But I was hoping you could offer some suggestions of things I can start earlier to increase his healthy life.  

He is on a lower-carb, home-prepared, lightly cooked diet about 33-50% of the time.  (protein sources 50%, carbs, usually from starchy veggies like sweet potatoes or beets 10-20%, non-starchy veggies 30-40%.)The rest of the time, I feed him what I consider to be better-quality commercial food: Grandma Lucy's, Real Meat, and, as a last resort, Honest Kitchen.  He has been off  kibble completely for slightly over a year.  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you for your time!

Dr. Steve's Advice - I'm sorry to hear your year has gotten off to a rough start. Hopefully you've managed to get some help from your holistic vet, that your dog is more perky again, and that the tumor is still very localized. I have a few suggestions for you to get things going. 

First, consider moving entirely to a real food diet. There is emerging evidence showing herbal protocols are much more likely to be effective if they are backed up by raw or cooked fresh food. If half the diet is processed, you are still feeding foods that are pro-inflammatory (and thus still tumor promoting). Please keep that in mind.

From a Chinese medical point of view, single fixed lumps on the distal extremities commonly represent Blood stasis, which can be understood as the formation of a tumor because of poor circulation. So it's important to drive the blood supply to the site. Turmeric in the food can help with that and has a myriad of anti-cancer effects. 

Soft tissue sarcomas also seem to be partly accumulations of Phlegm in Chinese medicine, so anti-Damp and Phlegm-transforming herbs can help.
A formula incorporating both of those requirements that might help prevent those 'dirty margins' from developing into anything is Kan Essentials Sublime Joint Formula. It has several anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory herbs in it, and is a top consideration for soft tissue tumors appearing on the distal extremities. 

Add some omega 3s to the diet, preferably at the high end of the dose for whatever product you're using. Add one small clove of garlic to the food as well, to help channel the action of the omega 3s into fighting cancer. Lastly, add in IP-6, which I've seen specifically helpful in tumors of the distal extremities. 

Hopefully this helps you out!

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