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Tue, Dec 1 | By Haley Finnegan | 58
Veterinary Pet Insurance held their third annual walk for pet cancer awareness in Long Beach, California on November 14th. The event drew in a crowd of over 300 people. With the money they raised at this walk and the previous walk in Brooklyn, NY VP… more ›
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SISSI V.
3 years ago
Are we killing our pets?
Three years ago I lost both my 12 year old cat and my 10 year old dog to cancer. I had no warning, happened overnight for my cat. After $1300 worth of diagnostics, they gave me no hope. My dog, also with no prior signs, was diagnossed three months later, and was also found to be beyond help. Both had cancer of the upper spine. Although it is three years ago, I cannot let it go, and keep thinking did I kill my pets with the Frontline? Afterall, same main ingredient than they use to kill termites and other pests, some articles do state it causes cancer. Yet, every Vet recommends it!
Tessa
3 years ago
November being "pet cancer awareness month" has a special irony for me ,since Raviynn was diagnosed with cancer last month. I don't think anyone is ever financially prepared for their pet to have cancer....perhaps they need to concentrate on making the treatment more affordable with better success rates.
Lisa B.
3 years ago
My cat that I had for 12 years died of cancer. It is sad and it was over a $1,000 for the first set of treatments. He lived for about six more months and then the vet wanted to do more surgery and I just didn´t want to put him through it so we put him to sleep. It was very sad.
Peggy W.
3 years ago
Early cancer pioneers such as Dr. Frederick R. Caulkins and Dr. William B. Coley developed early cancer treatents during the late 1800's but dtimulating the body's own immune systems by causing the patient to have a fever and a rash from such bacterial microorganisms as Strep pyogenes and Serratia marcescens. The immune systme would also target cancer cells and kill them. These early pioneers of cancer research had an 80% survival rate with patients diagnosed with poor prognosis cancers.
It would be wonderful if today's therapies for cancer treatment were as successful. Perhaps researchers need to take a better look at what pioneer cancer researchers accomplished.
Peggy W.
3 years ago
Sorry a few typos. That first sentence is supposed to read:
Early pioneers such as Dr. Frederick R. Caulkins and Dr. William B. Coley developed early cancer treatments during the late 1800's by stimulating the body's own immune system by causing the patients to have a fever and a rsh from such microorganisms as Strep pyogenes and Serratia marcescens.
Debra B.
3 years ago
$14K is a huge amount of money to raise with only 2 events. However, research doesn't come cheap, but any contribution is welcome to help with the study of cancer in pets. When I see VPI, I think of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. in Blacksburg, but they go by Virginia Tech now. They have a vet school, maybe VPI can see about helping out DVM researchers at Va Tech? VPI donates to VPI? Would get people wondering and reading.
daryl b.
3 years ago
momba anything that brings attention to this problem is a good thing and if only one good thing came out of michael vick being caught it was bringing it to more peoples attn of what an absolutly disgusting problem that that is. but i guess even though they tie it is a different problem
Michele Z.
3 years ago
This fund-raising technique will probably start expanding across the U.S. and we should be seeing more involvement. $14,000 is a lot of money, but not when it comes to research, so much more needs to be raised.
I was most surprised to hear that VPI has been in business for 28 years. Maybe I've just lost track of time, but I really don't think I've heard much, if anything, about the availability of pet insurance until maybe 10+ years ago. Like most "new" ideas, it may have been rather slow to "catch on", but it seems like pet insurance has been promoted mostly within the past 5 years or so.
Debra B.
3 years ago
28 years is a long time to be in the pet insurance business. My vet suggested that I get pet insurance for 8 cats, though, the monthly premiums might be more than any claims that I submit for a year as long as they cats are relatively young and healthy. In my area, I don't even know if there is a vet that does cancer therapy.
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