The Healthy Pet Manual by Deborah Straw

Author:Deborah Straw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2011-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS

In addition to the three major treatment approaches (surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy), several experimental treatments are currently being evaluated by veterinarians.

Immunotherapy: This treatment stimulates an animal’s immune system to attack the tumor. Used as part of Immunotherapy, one increasingly popular product, made from colostrum, is Transfer Factor.39 This product, made by 4Life Research, is used for both animals and humans to boost the immune system. Some veterinarians recommend the human product for animals, according to dozens of testimonials on Shirley’s Wellness Cafe, a Web site dedicated to promoting natural health for animals and people.40

Hyperthermia: This is “the raising of tissue temperatures to 42 to 50 degrees C for specific periods of time to produce an antitumor effect,” a therapy documented since the time of the ancient Greeks for treatment of tumors. It has been used more popularly with humans since the mid-1900s and is often used with chemotherapy or radiation.41

Photodynamic Therapy: This treatment has had good results on tumors including squamous cell carcinomas, transitional cell carcinomas, and soft-tissue sarcomas.42

Bone Transplants: In dogs, bone transplants have been “reasonably successful and have allowed the pet to avoid amputation,” according to Dr. Dave Reinhard, assistant medical director of Veterinary Pet Insurance, the largest pet insurance provider in the United States.

Antisense Therapy: Antisense drugs are currently in various stages of testing for the treatment of infectious, inflammatory, and cardiovascular diseases, and cancer in humans. They have actually had some success on prostate cancer. They work by using synthetic DNA or RNA to stop a cell’s genetic machinery from producing disease-related proteins. Theoretically, a custom antisense drug could be made to stop any of the two hundred varieties of cancer.43

Cryosurgery: This technique, which destroys tissues by deep freezing, is also occasionally used for some surgeries. It has been used for years in the treatment of human cancers of the liver, prostate, pancreas, and kidney. It is less invasive than conventional surgery and seems to produce fewer complications.44

Immuno-Augmentative Therapy (IAT): This therapy, which straddles the line between conventional and holistic treatments, attempts to redress imbalances in the proteins of the immune system so they can regulate the cancer themselves. Martin Goldstein, D.V.M., one of its primary practitioners, explains it thoroughly in his book, The Nature of Animal Healing. It involves analyzing a series of samples of the animal’s blood to identify deficiencies, and then addressing those deficiencies with a series of injections. Typically, an animal with cancer receives three to four injections each morning, and the same number in the evening, five days a week. This therapy has an advantage over chemo and radiation in that it is painless and has no side effects.45

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