Boxers and cancer are, unfortunately, like bread and butter. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death of dogs in the United States. Mast cell tumors are a common type of cancer that affects Boxer’s. Thankfully, these tumors rarely spread throughout the body. After removal of the tumor, if they do recur it is typically in the same location as they were originally removed. Mast cell tumors are usually locally invasive, and pet owners are advised to visually inspect their dog daily.

Longevity, or length of life for your dog, is determined mostly from lifestyle. If you have never worried much about whether your Boxer ate a healthy diet or received routine exercise, now is a good opportunity to shift the odds in your pets favor. All pets should have a balanced, healthy diet but when your dog has been stricken with cancer, it’s even more important to be sure he is getting everything he needs from his diet and add additional supplementation to make up for what is not available from diet alone.

With the addition of PAAWS, we have seen up to a 30% increase in healthy life-spans in dogs. This translates into an additional three to four additional years of healthy life that pets and their owners can enjoy together. An “average” Boxer’s life span is between ten to 12 years, but this is something that you have within your power to change. Making relatively minor lifestyle changes, offering a quality, well-balanced diet, and supplementing with a high quality, all natural supplement can significantly alter the future course of your pets’ life.

CAROL OSBORNE, D.V.M., is recognized as an authority on alternative and holistic veterinary medicine and the new clinical science of aging-related pet diseases.

A Board Certified Diplomat of the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine, she has pioneered the exploration of new therapies for the treatment and prevention of age-related degenerative disease, as well as promotion of optimum health and performance for pets.

Dr. Osborne created and patented PAAWS, Pet Anti-Aging Wellness System and authored Naturally Healthy Dogs and Naturally Healthy Cats. She has been featured in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.

An Emmy-nominated television journalist, Dr. Osborne has gained national prominence through her frequent appearances on popular shows including Today in New York, Good Day L.A., and Discovery’s Animal Planet.

Currently, she devotes much of her time to the research and development of advanced biosciences for the benefit of animal health and welfare.

Bookmark www.carolonpets.com for the latest pet health news, information and anti-aging updates for your dogs and cats.

Holistic veterinarian and pet researcher, Dr. Carol welcomes pet questions and offerspet consultations for dogs and cats. Call Dr. Carol’s veterinary office toll free at 1-866-372-2765 to make an appointment for your pet today.

What is responsible for the recent surge of pet cancer rates in dogs and cats? What major factors in diet and environment have changed over the last several years that may be the culprits? What can pet owners do to protect their dogs and cats from the ravages of cancer?

Certainly the increase in pollution and pesticides play an important role in increasing pet cancer rates, although other significant factors responsible for the recent surge in pet cancer rates must be also explored. According to a recently published study, spaying female dogs prior to 4 years of age reduces healthy pet life spans by 30 percent. Therefore, female dogs spayed prior to age 4 will have their lives shortened by nearly one-third!

In addition, as opposed to what most veterinarians, including myself, were taught in Veterinary Medical School, spaying and neutering dogs and cats at young ages does not promote pet health. Instead, sterilization at a young age actually reduces the quality and length of pets lives and INCREASES the incidence of several types of cancer in dogs and cats. Published data cites multiple types of cancer, including bone cancer, or osteosarcoma, and reproductive-related cancers, whose incidence increases in pets as a result of being spayed or neutered at young ages.

Another factor involved in the increased pet cancer incidence according to this veterinarian’s research is diet and pet nutrition – or what you place in the food bowl for your dog and/or cat each day. Unfortunately, today’s the food chain for people and pets not only lacks proper safety regulations but is also subject to “modification”.  GMO’s are GeneticallyModified Organisms used by companies like Monsanto to promote the growth of “super seeds” including soy, corn, and alfalfa. (It is noteworthy that Monsanto owns 30% of the world’s supply of the later three crops.) Monsanto was also responsible for the chemical called “Agent Orange” which affected hundreds of thousands of people and resulted in birth defects, auto-immune disorders, cancer, and death. Monsanto’s current popular agricultural pesticide product called “Roundup” contains the active ingredient “Glyphosate” which,once again, is highly toxic. When Roundup is sprayed on the GMO seeds and crops not only are the crops contaminated but the soil, land, pastures and fields are also damaged on a long-term basis.

What is the result? The result is permanent DNA damage and genetic mutations in the individuals ultimately consuming these food products. The resultant genetic damage and its relationship to our increased cancer incidence are topics of great concern for this veterinarian. In fact, not only do over a million cattle die annually from grazing these genetically modified “toxic” plants, one published study reveals development of various auto-immune disorders including “Lupus-Like” syndromes in animals consuming raw GMO alfalfa seeds. One has to wonder as to the true health benefits that health conscious individuals blending alfalfa drinks, for example, actually experience on a long-term basis.
What future health consequences will the animals being fed fresh alfalfa experience? One must ponder this question with knowledge of the fact that the FDA is currently attempting to ban labels from revealing whether or not a particular food product contains GMO’s.
What’s worse is that one of the board members of Monsanto was recently appointed to a prominent position in the EPA! The recent refusal by the Haitian peasants of Monsanto’s “gift” of tons of GMO seeds is a true eye-opener as it reveals the fact that even these poor people suffering from environmental devastation would rather starve to death than be subject to the health consequences of GMO’s.
Our water supply is also an important link to cancer. Currently the FDA has guidelines for “allowable levels” of highly toxic, cancer causing chemicals in our drinking water including: mercury, cadmium, lead, and arsenic to name a few. Providing pets with distilled drinking water is one way to help circumvent this issue.
In conclusion, health conscious pet owners attempting to offer their dogs and cats the very best and avoid cancer might consider these Top 10 Pet Cancer Prevention Guidelines:

• Feed pets home-made meals and avoid commercial pet food and commercial pet treats. If home cooking is not an option, buy organic pet food that has not been recalled by the FDA.
• Provide pets with distilled drinking water and avoid bottled, spring, and tap water.
• Keep pet vaccinations to a minimum. Vaccinate puppies and kittens with 2 initial boosters for the major viral diseases and rabies. Repeat vaccines once every three years. Check antibody titers to validate vaccine adequacy.
• Spay and neuter pets after age 4.
• Provide an all-natural, USA made, comprehensive vitamin, mineral and antioxidant supplement daily to balance home-made pet meals.
• Maintain pets with a lean body weight and avoid obesity.
• Pet exercise is a must! Exercise at least 20 minutes daily with dogs and provide indoor cats with at least four, 10 minute play sessions each day.
• Visit your veterinarian at least once a year. Senior pets (age seven and older) should have veterinary checks twice a year or at 6 month intervals.
• Partner up with your vet and work together as a team. Institute “pro-active” preventative pet health care measures for your dogs and cats.
• Relax, use common sense, have fun and enjoy your cherished 4-legged companions every day.

Holistic veterinarian and pet health researcher,  Dr. Carol Osborne, DVM., is available for pet health questions and pet health consultations for dogs and/ or cats.

Contact Dr. Carol’s veterinary office toll free at 1-866-372-2765 to make an appointment for your dog and/or cat today.

The Role Pet Nutritional Supplements Play in the Treatment and Management

Of  Pet Cancer Therapy for Dogs and Cats

Statistics run by the Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University (CSU), document the fact that cancer is the number one cause of death in pets. Over 50% of dogs and cats age 10 and older die from cancer.

90% of Golden Retrievers diagnosed with cancer die, regardless of the therapy given.

Recent studies indicate that nearly 80 % of dog and cat owners with pets diagnosed with cancer use some type of complementary and/or alternative medical (CAM) therapy, with pet nutritional supplements ranking first.

The goal in treating pet cancer in all cases is complete and permanent remission. Unfortunately, for the vast majority, complete remission of cancer in dogs and cats is never achieved regardless of which modality, or combination of traditional and/or alternative is instituted.

A recently published study showed that traditional chemotherapy results over the last 15 years have increased long term survival rates for less than 3% of pet cancer cases.

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What is responsible for the recent surge of pet cancer rates in dogs and cats?  What are the major factors that have changed over the last several years that may be the culprits? What can pet owners do to protect their dogs and cats?

Certainly the increase in pollution and pesticides play an important role, although other significant factors responsible for the recent surge in pet cancer rates must be also explored.

According to a recently published study, spaying female dogs prior to 4 years of age, reduces healthy pet life spans by 30%.

Therefore female dogs spayed prior to age 4 will have their lives shortened by nearly 1/3!

In addition, as opposed to what most veterinarians, including myself were taught in Veterinary Medical School, spaying and neutering dogs and cats at young ages, does not promote pet health.

It reduces the quality and length of pet lives and actually INCREASES the incidence of several types of  cancer in dogs and cats.

Published data cites multiple types of cancer, including bone cancer, or Osteosarcoma and reproductive related cancers, whose incidence increases in pets, as a result of being spayed or neutered at young ages.

Another factor involved in the increased cancer incidence according to this veterinarian’s research is diet and pet nutrition or what you place in the food bowel for your dog and/or cat each day.

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Hello Dr. Carol!

Remember Jeremy our collie? We called you about a year and a half ago when we got the bad news that he was diagnosed with Lymphoma Cancer and we were devastated. It was a relief talking to you that day, but you encouraged us to have hope.

Jeremy had been very healthy most of his life so this was very shocking for us. He was given the option of IV chemotherapy or oral chemo and prednisone. The oncology vet told us that Jeremy could very well not pull through the IV chemo treatment but then again said it could be successful but that it would only give him 6 months at best. The cost of the chemo was also very high and came with no guarantee at all.

So we finally decided to treat him naturally with your help and try to keep him comfortable.

It is hard to believe but its been a year longer than the oncology vet gave him to live with chemo and without any chemo Jeremy acts like a champ. His appetite is still good and he gulps down your anti-cancer diet.

We give him your Paaws vitamins and kidney product every day. They are wonderful and I believe have been responsible for helping him tremendously through all of this. When our friends come over, they can’t believe Jeremy is sick. Sometimes when we are outside playing, he is so active and energetic we forget he is sick. But that piece of paper with the biopsy report from the oncology vet makes us come back to reality.

Our vet is amazed at how well he is doing.  The most recent blood test shows normal kidney values and slightly elevated liver values and some abnormal white cells and our vet said that’s to be expected.

We wanted to do the very best for Jeremy. We love him like a child and now we feel certain that we made the right choice.

We are so grateful for all the time you spent helping us and your wonderful products.

We can’t thank you enough!

Carol, Bill and Jeremy W.

Gwinn, Michigan

Holistic veterinarian, Dr. Carol Osborne, DVM is available for pet health consultations and pet health questions for dogs and cats. Call Dr. Carol’s office toll free t 1-866-372-2765 to make an appointment for your pet.

Bookmark www.carolonpets.com for the latest pet health news, tips, stories and pet anti-aging updates for your dogs and cats.

I wanted to share this note with all of my pet loving friends. I received this from a family in Florida. They are the proud owners of a Cocker Spaniel named Buddy. who has been diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer.

Hi Dr. Carol,
Our Cocker Spaniel, Buddy was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer in July 2009.

We live in Florida. My husband found out about your PAAWS vitamins online and called to find out some information and order PAAWS.

Buddy started taking PAAWS vitamins and your dog cancer essentials the week after his diagnosis and has been taking them ever since!

He loves them!

We decided to try chemotherapy and with the first protocol, he went into remission for 5 weeks.  Then, unfortunately the lymphoma returned. We decided to try a rescue protocol and he has been in a second remission for 6 months now.

His last chemotherapy treatment was 3 months ago and he is doing FANTASTIC!!!

We think that it is a combination of many things: his wonderful veterinarian, chemotherapy, your wonderful PAAWS vitamins and lots of love from his family!

Just wanted to share his success!

We can’t thank you enough you for all your help, time and advice and for making this wonderful PAAWS product!

Tom, Beverly & Buddy

Holistic veterinarian and Anti-Aging Pet Health Diplomat, Dr. Carol Osborne, DVM., is available for pet health consultations and pet health questions for dogs and cats. To make an appointment for your dog and/or cat call Dr. Carol’s office Toll Free at 1-866-372-2765.

Bookmark www.carolonpets.com for the latest pet health news, tips and pet anti-aging up dates for your dogs and cats.

Dear Dr. Carol,

Thank you so much for your offer of advice (which I will use in the future as I have 3 dogs), but unfortunately, our dog was diagnosed with cancer. A tumor weakened the shoulder which made the breaks easier to happen. We put him to sleep this morning as his quality of life was not going to be good. He was in pain. He lived 15 great years. He passed peacefully. I think that is the best gift we could give him. He was fed home-made foods and given great immune supplements all his life, but sometimes we have to let them go.

How nice to know that a total stranger (and, now, new friend) can be so intimate and caring.
Thank you for this. I will stay in contact as we continue to be blessed with our four legged friends.

Blessed to be a caretaker
Best wishes,
Sherri L.

Cancer is now the leading cause of death in dogs in the United States!

Certainly cures are needed and now some of these cancer ridden dogs have been enrolled in a new clinical trials program, in which they receive experimental chemotherapeutic drugs before they become available for people. Twelve trials are currently under way on groups of 15 to 60 dogs, and at this point some reports say that many of these canines have responded “favorably” to the drugs.

The trials are being run by The Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium which is located in Bethesda, Maryland, and was recently formed by the US National Cancer Institute.

The rationale for using dogs instead of mice and rats, is because cancer affects dogs very similar to the way it affects people. In addition, the different types of cancers, plaguing pets is also similar to the variety’s affecting humans. Therefore their rationale on using dogs, instead of rats and mice as “guinea pigs” for people gives researchers a better idea of how the drugs would eventually affect people.
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The Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to three American scientists for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, that play a key role in the aging process as well as cancer, in people and pets.
The three American Laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize of $1.42 million dollars.

These discoveries will further the understanding of the aging process, shed light on disease mechanisms, and in time help to stimulate the development of potential new human and pet therapies.

Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California at San Francisco was one member of the Nobel Laureate team.

The telomerase enzyme also plays a key role in allowing tumor cells to multiply uncontrolled and develop into cancer. As such this represents a major new area of focus for new drug research. For example, vaccines that target telomerase are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of lung and prostate cancer.

This discovery is of major significance and will become the new foundation for future research on cancer, stem cells and the aging process itself. This research is as applicable to pets as it is for people.

Jack Szostak of the Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts was the second recipient.

Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year. The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace were initially awarded in 1901 accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman, Alfred Nobel.

The final recipient, Carol Greider (left) is with John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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