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23 April 2011 - 11:03 pm
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Thanks hugapitbull!  The support here has been great.

Joy, do you mind if I ask why you chose metronomic chemo over traditional chemo?  Also, is your diet homemade or a brand of dogfood?  If it's homemade, how are you determining what ingredients and how much of each ingredient to include?  If it's dogfood, can you tell me the brand name?  My regular vet mentioned that a higher protein/low carb diet could help and I'm just starting to investigate diets.

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24 April 2011 - 10:53 am
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mck025 said:

I'm just starting to investigate diets.

FYI: You'll find lots of information in the Tripawds Nutrition blog. A high protein low carb diet is indeed best for cancer dogs, starch free food is even better.  Here is a link to all the Nutrition posts about grain free dog foods.

You will also find various homemade dog food cookbooks and recipes in the Tripawds Downloads blog .

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mck025 said:

Thanks hugapitbull!  The support here has been great.

Joy, do you mind if I ask why you chose metronomic chemo over traditional chemo?  Also, is your diet homemade or a brand of dogfood?  If it's homemade, how are you determining what ingredients and how much of each ingredient to include?  If it's dogfood, can you tell me the brand name?  My regular vet mentioned that a higher protein/low carb diet could help and I'm just starting to investigate diets.

We actually did 5 regular chemo treatments (doxirubicin) after he had the spleenectomy and before the amputation.

Champ eats the Honest Kitchen Preference and I cook him whitefish as the protein. And he's supposed to get 1/2 to 3/4 cups of Preference to the same amount of protein for a regular dog each meal, but I do 1/2 cup Preference and a whole cup of whitefish in the morning and 1/4 cup Preference and 3/4 cut of whitefish in the evening. If I feel I need, I can change the mix anytime I want… Preference is pricey but I'm happy with it so far.

HK Preference is some organic, all human grade dehydrated food. No grain, no gluten.

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24 April 2011 - 12:29 pm
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Joy -- thank you for the diet info.  We were recommended to do the 5 treatments of doxirubicin as well.  How did Champ tolerate those treatments?  I'm a little worried about the doxirubicin from what I've read (cardiotoxicity and more side effects than other chemo drugs) but the vet said that this was recommended for hemangiosarcoma.

Jerry, thank you for the pointers.

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Don't forget to have the diet change discussion with your treating vet.  With Trouble's history of allergies, ours did not want me to change diet until after the chemo was completed.  He didn't want to have to guess is the diet change or the chemo was the cause if complications developed.

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mck025 said:

Joy -- thank you for the diet info.  We were recommended to do the 5 treatments of doxirubicin as well.  How did Champ tolerate those treatments?  I'm a little worried about the doxirubicin from what I've read (cardiotoxicity and more side effects than other chemo drugs) but the vet said that this was recommended for hemangiosarcoma.

Jerry, thank you for the pointers.

He tolerated the doxirubicin extremely well... he never threw up, never went off his food, no change in personality... his coat got a little thinner but it's since grown back to being extremely thick.

we did have the heart sonograms done each visit to make sure that there were no effects on his heart, of which there were none.

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Joy,  Thanks for letting me know that!  I read several threads where dogs had problems after doxorubicin, so it is helpful to know that there are instances where they do not have problems.

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