Fighting Osteosarcoma with My K9 Immunity Clinial Trial
Posted by jerry in Cancer Awareness, Treatment, tags: clinical trials, K9 Immunity, osteosarcoma, supplements
Hooking up with the wonderful people at the Veterinary Cancer Care clinic has been great for my health. The clinic is very forward thinking. Not only are we treating my cancer metastasis with the Metronomic Protocol, but I am also participating in their K9 Immunity Clinical Trial.
Mom and Dad knew about K9 Immunity, but had never tried it before. It’s a supplement made from medicinal mushrooms, that’s supposed to help my immune system out. When I first got sick, they chose to focus on giving me a narrow list of supplements to keep me healthy, so that they could eventually measure the results of my supplement regime against osteosarcoma dogs who had not been on those same supplements.
But then my cancer returned, and Mom and Dad decided to take out the big guns. The Veterinary Cancer Care clinic is doing a clinical trial with K9 Immunity, and I am so happy to report that I was selected for it.
What Are We Trying to Find Out?
The people who make K9 Immunity decided to sponsor this trial, because of the lack of hard evidence out there that immune-boosting supplements like K9 Immunity actually work. At the Veterinary Cancer clinic, patients with canine lymphoma, mast cell tumor, osteosarcoma and splenic hemangiosarcoma are elibigle to receive K9 Immunity at no charge if they met the criteria. Pawrents though, are responsible for follow up tests and the like. Seems like a fair deal to me!
In this study, dogs will get K9 Immunity alongside conventional chemotherapy treatment. Then, the pawrents are responsible for keeping very detailed records about my everyday life. Like, what I ate and when, what my activity level was like, and even what my poo was like!
Participants are evaluated for: Tumor remission status, disease free interval, survival time, conventional therapy side effects, and overall quality of life. The information will be compared to dogs who didn’t receive K9 Immunity. It’s a long-term study and the results won’t be published for at least a year, but I’m so happy to know that I’m helping to fight osteosarcoma.
So far I feel pretty great. I’m not experiencing any side effects from my low-dose chemo, and my energy level is the same as it was before we know about my metastasis. K9 Immunity seems to be working just great, in my book!
Next week I have a follow up appointment at the vet to see how I am doing. I’ll report back then and give you the whole scoop on how K9 Immunity is helping me out.
Boozerdog 
Kellie 
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Hi Boozerdog, thanks for writing!
Well, it has indeed been a while since I’ve been on K9, but I haven’t written about it for a while because I’m doing great on it. My pawrents mix my seven pills into my food every night, and I don’t even notice them. I know, I’m funny that way.
Life is good, and I’m still getting around great. Yep, I’m slower with age, and although I see that it makes my pawrents a little sad that I don’t walk quite as far or play quite as hard as I used to, they are still hoppy that I’m up there, getting outside and having fun. At my age and state of health, everything is all about quality, not quantity.
Keep an eye on your weight loss though. Have you talked to your vet about it? You know I was losing weight fast for a while, and my pawrents fattened me up with cottage cheese mixed in my food. That worked so well they had to cut back on it a little! Try that. But do have your vet keep an eye on it OK?
Thanks for writing. Why don’t you join us over in the Forums and tell us more about yourself?