Early detection is probably our biggest factor; hence annual wellness or semi-annual wellness are excellent things to do.

We try for it not to be. Our rules are, we don't want anybody in pain. We don't want anybody sick, and we don't want anybody starving. We want them to eat. We want them to feel good.

In response to treatment, they'll go into a remissive state. A lot of those chemo protocols are done at that point or a little past that. Then we monitor the dog very closely for them to come out of remission. Then a new protocol is started at that point.

It depends. Surgery is often curative, and so that’s the day of surgery and healing, and it's done. With chemotherapy agents for lymphoma, the treatments can vary. Some of them can last many months until the pet goes into remission. Then when they come back out of remission, they start over. It depends on the tumor.

Yeah. There are many different medications, as chemotherapeutics are medications. Certain tumors like bladder tumors respond to medicine to some degree, or it slows their spread and increase in size. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories like Rimadyl can also help with those tumors. Studies show a good quality balanced nutrition and leaner body weight put an animal at lower risk of cancer.