By Kylee Mullen, Staff Writer kmullen@amestrib.com Posted May 18, 2019 at 12:01 AMUpdated May 18, 2019 at 7:49 PM Sampson, a 10-year-old husky, received his final radiation treatment last week at the Iowa State University Hixson-Lied Small Animal Hospital. As he lay sedated on a table in the new treatment room, his oncology team celebrated his upcoming “graduation.” He had undergone two treatments in the facility previously for a nasal tumor. According to...

By Hanna Mordoh From NBC Connecticut There is new hope for animals diagnosed with cancer here in Connecticut. An experimental immunotherapy cancer treatment for pets being made in Farmington is making progress and could have the potential to help people in the future. Over the last year, Michiel Considine has been traveling from Torrington and meeting with Dr. Steve Leshem at the Veterinary Emergency...

Written by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker Healthy Pets Mercola The canine ancestral diet contains only minimal amounts of fiber or “roughage” (about 4%). When thinking about the need for fiber in your dog’s diet, it’s important to remember that wild canines have no physiologic requirement for the plant fibers used in most processed pet food. These are typically inexpensive and include beet pulp, buckwheat...

“For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.” ― Roger Caras In This Issue: Make Your Dog a Star in Our 2020 “Cancer Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down” Calendar Contest;  May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month; Clinical trial begins...

The relative risk of a recurrence of cancer is reduced by 60% in dogs whose tumors are completely removed, a new analysis by Oregon State University researchers has found. The researchers reviewed published veterinary studies and found a recurrence of less than 10% in dogs where the soft tissue sarcoma was completely excised, versus 33% recurrence in cases where the cancer was incompletely excised,...

Lyme disease in dogs is one of the most common tick-transmitted diseases in the world, but it only causes symptoms in 10 percent of affected dogs. When infection leads to Lyme disease in dogs, the dominant clinical feature is recurrent lameness due to inflammation of the joints, and a general feeling of malaise. There may also be depression and a lack of appetite. More serious complications...

By Dr. Karsten Fostvedt Melanoma is a tumor that arises cells that produce a pigment called melanin. Melanomas in the mouth of dogs are often extremely malignant and require early, aggressive surgery for a successful outcome. Oral melanoma is one of the most common malignant cancers in dogs. No direct cause of oral melanoma has been identified in dogs. Most dogs are older, and...

Michelle Lou More than 20 years ago, Terri Mattula’s dog Gator passed out while her husband was walking him. They took Gator to the vet and learned he had a third-degree heart block and needed a pacemaker. However, they were both students at the time and couldn’t afford one. “That’s urgent arrhythmia,” Mattula said. “If a person had that kind of block, within 24...

Hemangiosarcoma is a highly invasive type of cancer that grows rapidly. It primarily forms in dogs, but can also develop in humans and other animals. Jaime Modiano with the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and Masonic Cancer Center answers questions about what hemangiosarcoma is, the current standard of care, and the implications his cancer research has for veterinary and human medicine. Q:...