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UPDATE 11/22/05: Emergency purrs for a dog
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wrote: Cali has been diagnosed with inoperable bladder cancer. They're trying to find a specialist who can tell them whether chemo might help Cali. Dan Deep sympathy. Clifford died from bladder cancer, and, when I searched the research literature, found there had been more treatments experimentally developed for dogs than cats. One promising area is to sensitize the tumor with dyes, and then hit it with laser radiation passed into the bladder through optical fiber. You might also check with veterinary schools to find the status of such approaches. Again, I'm more familiar with bladder cancer in cats. Some relief can come quickly from a combination of a corticosteroid such as prednisone and a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory such as piroxicam. These quickly relieve irritation from the tumor against the bladder wall. Although the shrinkage may be temporary, the pain relief lasts longer. With Clifford, this was used in an attempt to strengthen him for the more potent chemotherapeutic drugs. I can't speak definitively for dogs, but the veterinary medical oncologist swore up and down that some of the agents used, such as cisplatin, do not have the side effects in cats that they do in humans. I'd think long and hard before agreeing to therapy, for myself, with cisplatin, but I was satisfied that it could be used effectively in cats. |
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UPDATE 11/22/05: Emergency purrs for a dog
I'm so very sorry to hear that, Dan.
Lots and lots of purrs for chemo to work really well, Polonca and Soncek Dan M wrote: Cali has been diagnosed with inoperable bladder cancer. They're trying to find a specialist who can tell them whether chemo might help Cali. Dan |
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