Should you put your dog through chemotherapy?

With the financial resources he needed, Michael took Corbin every Wednesday to get chemo. "The chemo happened in five-week cycles, four weeks of a different medication each week and then a week off," explains Michael. At first, Corbin suffered from an upset stomach and diarrhea. Then, he tended to get sick after every third treatment. read more

The trouble, however, is that most pet owners who reject chemotherapy on these grounds have a mistaken notion of what it is that veterinary chemotherapy is designed to do. I know this to be true because almost no owner is immediately prepared to euthanize their pet at the time of the cancer diagnosis. read more