Holistic care and home support are effective for treating canine cancer.

By CJ Puotinen

Cancer always sounds like a death sentence, no matter how the diagnosis is delivered. When patients are cured, they’re the exception rather than the rule – especially when they are very young or very old or when their cancers are well established.

Laurie Kaplan wrote a book about her experiences with helping her Siberian Husky, Bullet, fight lymphoma. Help Your Dog Fight Cancer: An Overview of Home Care Options is a useful text for anyone whose dog has any type of cancer.

“It’s true that some cancers have a high survival rate,” says Carol Falck, VMD, a holistic veterinarian in Pompano Beach, Florida, “but cancer is never good news, even if it’s easy to treat or detected early. Cancer is a chronic disease, an aberration of the immune system. Whenever and however it appears, it indicates that the body has been out of balance for a long time.” …

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