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Spay/neuter and the association with cancer in dogs: part three
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Wednesday June 12th, 2013 at 06:46 PM
Reproduction is a risky affair.Reproduction is a risky affair is the attention-getting opening line in one of the studies Ill review today (Hoffman, 2013).
But before we go through the new studies, lets review my previous blogs on this topic. They have been generating some controversy, and with good reason this is a touchy, political subject!
In my first post, we discussed that sex hormones can promote some cancers (mammary and perianal adenomas), and that early spay/neuter surgeries...
Spay/neuter and the association with cancer in dogs: part two
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Tuesday June 4th, 2013 at 05:07 PM
In part one of my series on spay/neutering, we reviewed the data that sex hormones can promote certain cancers, specifically anal gland tumors in males and breast cancer in females.
But more recently, there is evidence that less exposure to sex hormones increases risk for other aggressive cancers, including osteosarcoma, bladder transitional cell carcinoma, and prostate cancer, lymphoma, and mast cell tumors. So sex hormones may not be all bad, and in fact may be PROTECTIVE again certain...
Heterocyclic Amines in the News
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Friday May 31st, 2013 at 04:24 AM
Im happy to report a news article highlighting one of the subjects, carcinogenic heterocyclic amines, discussed in the Guide.
The Mercola article discussed a publication about finding this substance, PhIP, in dog fur (as an aside, not all dogs have fur, as some have hair, but that is a different story!). PhIP is in a class of carcinogens that got a quick splash of media attention in the seventies, and thendisappeared.
This class of carcinogens, the heterocyclic amines (HCAs), is formed upon...
Spay/neuter and the association with cancer in dogs: part one
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Monday May 27th, 2013 at 10:07 PM
In the US, there is widespread recommendation for early spay and neuter. But recently the association of spay/neutering and cancer in dogs has been in the news again. Specifically the concern is that spay/neutering increases the risk of cancer, which brings into question this recommendation to spay/neuter at 6 months of age. We are going to look into this complicated issue is this series.
I started to learn more about this when I joined Dr. Dressler and we began to prepare and edit the 2nd...
Video on the Full Spectrum Approach to Dog Cancer Care
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 05:14 AM
This video on the full spectrum approach to dog cancer care is one of over 40 videos that you can find on our Dog Cancer Vet YouTube channel.
Here is the transcript of the video:
Transcript of: The Full Spectrum Approach to Dog Cancer Care
James Jacobson: 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:...
Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Thursday May 2nd, 2013 at 10:30 PM
In my last two posts about osteosarcoma (OSA), we discussed treatments that address the tumor affecting the bone. We discussed amputation, Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS) like Cyberknife, palliative radiation, and limb-spare surgery.
While these treatments are important for the malignant tumor destroying the bone, metastasis (cancer spread) is inevitable. So even if the primary tumor is successfully removed with surgery or killed with SRS, these tiny metastases (which are often undetectable at...
Vaccination and Dog Cancer
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Thursday April 25th, 2013 at 12:05 AM
A reader recently posed a question about vaccinations and links with cancer in dogs.
I discussed this in more detail in the Guide, along with many other factors that may (or may not) have links to cancer. But, since it came up, I thought it might make a good post.
If reader is looking for a vilification of vaccines, a carte-blanche condemnation of the practice of vaccination, a hysterical, reactive, anti-ist, myopic tirade against vaccines in general, you may want to stop reading. This is not...
Is There A Reason For All This Dog Cancer, part 2
from Dog Cancer Blog
on Thursday April 11th, 2013 at 06:51 AM
In my last post, we looked at some of the connections between the environment, diet, and cancer development. We also examined how similar cancer is to the bodys reaction to an injury, as if it were healing a damaged or wounded organ in a deranged way.
Today, Ill continue some of my thoughts about why the cancer rates are so high these days, for dogs, humans, and other animals.
We have discussed in the Guide and here on this blog the effects of estrogen disruptors, which are chemicals that mimic...
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