New Research: How Chemotherapy Kills Dogs With Cancer
ByResearchers at the University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently received a grant to study whether left over cancer cells from chemotherapy treatment spreads to other parts of the body.
UAB researchers say the resulting altered DNA may be the factor that activates the spread of living cancer cells to distant locations in the body – a deadly process called metastasis – through a specific molecular pathway.
Metastasis is the No. 1 cause of cancer recurrence and treatment failure.
The UAB study acknowledges that dead cancer cells from chemotherapy can cause the spreading of cancer and metastasis.
The research leader, Katri Selander, M.D., Ph.D., states that there is a possibility that “by killing cancer cells with chemotherapy we inadvertently induce DNA structures that make surviving cancers cells more invasive.” Therefore, this may be the factor that activates the spread of living cancer cells to distant locations in the body – a deadly process called metastasis – through a specific molecular pathway.
It is commonly acknowledged and understood by holistic practitioners that in the short term, conventional toxic treatments like chemotherapy are not effective in most cases. But even in those cases where it is, the cancer is likely to metastasize into a more devastating type of cancer that is resistant to any type of treatment. This research gives a scientific explanation as to why that is true.
This research is essentially important for people dealing with cancer in dogs. It explains why chemotherapy in dogs is only successful in less than 5 percent of the cases. Even if the tumor or cancer is in remission for a short period after this type of treatment, when it returns, there is nothing more that can be done. And this study suggests, that chemotherapy alters DNA to make the cancer return more rapidly by spreading the disease through the dead cancer cells that the chemotherapy, itself, has produced.
What this research means for you is that whether the chemotherapy you treat your dog with is Palladia, Carboplatin, Chlorambucil, Cisplatin, Dexamethasone, Doxorubicin, Vincristine, or any other chemotherapeutic agent, chances are that the toxicity of these drugs will promote rapid metastasis, and produce devastating consequences. This is, in fact, why most dogs die in a short amount of time on these drugs.
Scientific data for dogs receiving holistic and natural treatments for dog cancer show that they do not have these problems and survive much longer.
In Dog Cancer: The Holistic Answer I explain the protocol that I used to extend my dog, Fergie’s life much longer than could have been done with chemotherapy. They’re scientifically proven holistic treatments that are less invasive, less expensive and don’t risk the chance of metastases that chemotherapeutic agents do.
I have purchased your book but was already starting ‘PROTOCEL’ she (desexed female staffyx almost eight years old) has been on it for almost three weeks, but is going down hill fast. It all started about 6 months ago with bladder cancer,; this has now mastastisized all through her body with a massive outer tumour about 7ins around and 13ins in length. She is in a bad way, and unless you think I am not being unrealistically hopeful, it seems the better option to have her put down. Can you please give me of your educated advice as I do not wish to end the fight unless absolutely necessary. Oh I took her off the protocel yesterday at the advice of the vet and have started her on opticell supplement and ‘orthoplex’ ultra buffered C powder. I am in Australia which could make it difficult to come by many of the products mentioned in the book.
In reading Suzan Sommers recent book: “Knockout” where she interviews MDs and Ph.Ds who treat cancer in humans with alternative therapies, it is stated (I believe Nicholas Gonzalez states this) that chemo only works in 3 types of human cancers: testicular cancer, juvenile leukemia, and lymphomas. (Not sure if this applies to canines, also???).
Also stated is the in a survey of oncologists, 80% would not take chemotherapy themselves, although they prescribe to their patients.
Of all places, a sit-com pretty-girl has to be the one to reveal what’s out there that works and does not work and she has successfully treated her breast cancer with the help of alternative therapeutics.
The above article is very interesting. Personally, I feel that medical traditional cancer care in the United States, is downright Barbaric.
A book worth reading
According to an article at http://www.holisticcancersolutions.com/, “In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that in the previous year, the average oncologist had made $253,000 of which 75% was profit on chemotherapy drugs administered in his/her office. Yet, surveys of oncologists by the Los Angeles Times and the McGill Cancer Center in Montreal show that from 75% to 91% of oncologists would refuse chemotherapy as a treatment for themselves or their families. Why? Too toxic and not effective. Yet, 75% of cancer patients are urged to take chemo by their oncologists.”
Hello Eva,
I am so sorry to hear about your dog. You will know when it’s time to put your dog down if that time comes.
That being said, there are effective treatments for advanced stage cancers that are not toxic. Some of them require supervision by a professional who knows how to use them. If you can, use the testing protocol in Chapter 9 of Dog Cancer: The Holistic Answer. I have additional instructional videos for this technique at BDC.
I am sending you an email with the names of some of the more advanced non-toxic treatments.
Best wishes,
Dr. Steven Eisen