Alternative Therapy for Canine Cancer

When a dog has cancer, it can be just as devastating as finding out that your best friend or family member has cancer. Unlike with humans, there are aggressive alternative therapy treatments that can be used to help with the cancer if not put the dog into remission.

• Antiangiogenesis Therapy: Angiogenesis is the creation of new blood vessels. The creation of these new blood vessels is what keeps the cancer growing and spreading to other parts of the body. With all these new blood vessels, they feed oxygen and nutrients to the tumors so that they can grow in size and spread. With antiangiogenesis therapy, you are suffocating the tumors by cutting off their oxygen and nutrient supply so that the tumors shrink or die off.


• Anti-Cancer Diet: If you don't mind cooking for your dog, there is a very extensive anti-cancer diet that you can feed your dog that will help shrink tumors as well as keeping other cancers from forming.


• Acupuncture: Many people are finding acupuncture to be an alternative that is actually working to help combat canine cancer. Not only is it helping the dog to be relieved of pain and suffering but it is also helping to shrink tumors so that they are smaller and easily removable with surgery.


• Surgery: Depending on the placement of the tumor as well as how small it is, many are finding that surgery is helping to alleviate the canine of cancer. While treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are still required to guarantee that the cancer stays gone, surgery is proving to be effective.