Understand your pet’s treatment options

When your dog is diagnosed with cancer, you have to be prepared for anything and understand your pet’s treatment options. You should ask your vet what’s the right treatment for your dog and don’t be afraid to ask more questions if needed.

“Options may include surgical treatment, combination therapy of surgery and chemotherapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy alone, and immunotherapy,” says Dr. Brown. “Immunotherapy includes cancer vaccines – there’s a cancer vaccine for melanoma available for dogs now. There is also work on a number of other immunotherapy modalities where you’re basically taking the dog’s own immune cells to kill its own cancer cells.”