Dr. Sue Ettinger has posted a new Youtube Video on a treatment for canine lymphoma: monoclonal antibody therapy to assist in the treatment of lymphoma in your canine veterinary patients. Please check out her video...

Potentially Toxic for Your Pet – Watch Out for This Popular Preventive It’s that time of year again, when many of us turn to heartworm prevention to protect our pets from heartworms and the problems they cause. This article, by Dr. Karen Becker, provides a thoughtful approach to using heartworm treatments — when to use them, when not to use them, and why. Loading...

From the article here. Even if your dog has many years left to live, they can benefit from the services these senior and geriatric pet experts provide. Chris Corrigan Mendez |  Mar 31st 2017 Pet hospice. When I ask others what they know about this veterinary specialty, the most common response is, “Oh, those are vets who will put your dying dog to sleep in...

Dr. Sue Cancer Vet Interview from 2012 This article, from the site AngryVet,  is dated December 2012, but the topics discussed continue to be relevant. I recently came across this interview between Dr. Rob and Dr. Sue Ettinger and thought the information Dr. Sue provides, especially on spaying, neutering, and the incidence of cancer, very valuable. Additionally, the idea of a cancer registry for...

March 31, 2017 Jill Johnson From KDLT News. To view the video, please follow this link. PLANKINTON, S.D. – Two South Dakota teens are showing us that anything is possible with hard work. A brother and sister from Plankinton have been working together to try to cure cancer in man’s best friend. They’ve had some amazing results, earning them recognition and even scholarship money...

What Do Lumps on Dogs Mean? From Canine Journal by: Nicole Stebbins Updated: December 17, 2014 If you have an older dog then you are no stranger to finding miscellaneous bumps and lumps on them. In fact, most dogs over the age of 7 will have developed one or more of these bumps upon inspection. But what are these lumps and bumps on dogs...

March 25, 2017 Richard Froese Spotlight Dogs are being recruited to detect cancer in humans by a woman who recently became a certified trainer. After obtaining a certification to train dogs in bio detection, such as early stage cancer and other diseases, Liz Dick of Langdon AB, is now starting with a small group of dogs, says a news release dated March 10. Over...

March 23, 20174:00 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Cancer can be caused by tobacco smoke or by an inherited trait, but new research finds that most of the mutations that lead to cancer crop up naturally. The authors of the study published Thursday poked a hornet’s nest by suggesting that many cancers are unavoidable. The provocative findings by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian...

Definition A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either found in the brain itself, in the cranial nerves, in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, or pituitary and pineal gland.  Primary brain tumors (those arising form the cells of the brain and it’s lining) in dogs include meningioma, glioma, choroid plexus papilloma, pituitary adenoma or adenocarcinoma, and...