There are many treatments for your dog that can raise the remission and survival rate if your
dog has canine lymphoma. While some of these options have their own risks involved, it’s a good
practice to combine the treatments to make sure you give your dog the best chance of survival. One
treatment is surgery.
If the lymphoma is caught early enough and is in a place that can be removed without any harsh side
effects, surgery can be the ultimate treatment, giving your dog the best possible survival rate
for canine lymphoma.
The most common and effective treatment for canine lymphoma will be chemotherapy. This treatment
uses drugs that are specially designed to kill cancers cells, although you should be warned that
these drugs can kill healthy cells just as easily. While there is a risk when going this route,
using a combination of chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatment will give your dog its greatest
percentage of survival and remission possible.
Just like with humans, your dog will have an oncologist vet that will help guide you through your
dog’s treatment with chemotherapy. This oncologist will be in charge of making sure your dog gets
the lowest toxicity for its treatment.
If your dog is on a chemo regimen, it’s a good idea to give it immune boosters as well. These boosters
will contain glyconutrients which boost your dog’s immune system; so that the chemo has a greater
chance to kill the cancer cells while keeping the healthy cells untouched. On top of this, you should
feed your dog a healthy diet.
Most dog foods that are high in carbohydrates will end up “feeding” the cancer cells, causing them
to accelerate their progression. But a food high in protein will starve those same cancer cells.
With the many different types of treatment available these days for canine lymphoma, you shouldn’t
have too many issues with your dog’s survival rate. The only issue is whether to seek out the treatment
that your dog needs, thus increasing its survival and remission rate.
If you do nothing, your dog will not last more than 2 or 3 months and will spend that time in excruciating
pain. No one wants to see their dog go through something like this so they seek out the best treatment
plans available to them and their dogs to make sure their loved pet makes it through this ordeal.