Jake

Pam can obviously give better information. But since I expect to start Tazzie 2 on Artemisinin next week, I'll butt in (I have the stuff here, but am starting Cytoxan first). It seems fine to give Artemisinin alongside most other treatments and it is definitely fine to give it when you are not doing chemo. We just stopped chemo after finding a pesky met. Artemisinin is one of my last hopes to slow things down (or even better reverse the trend!). It is appropriate, and probably better, to give it before a met shows, but we don't have that option!

Basically it has been shown to kill cancer cells in a petri dish but there have not been many studies to show how it works in real life. I think most people use it along side other treatments (chemo, metronomics). At this stage, it is unproven. But it seems to be very safe (as long as you give it away from iron-containing foods) and there is some good logic and preliminary results behind it.

There are some precautions about giving it: do not give it when you give a food high in iron such as meat. If you search "artemisinin", you will find some nice threads that Pam started when she researched it this year and a thread I started more recently, in which she gave additional advice. Jake is the same size as my Tazzie (but much smaller than Pam's Tazzie so would take a similar dose to my Tazzie. The pills and dose I will give him are listed higher on this page.

Pam gives her Tazzie Artemisinin at night a few hours after dinner, wrapped in cheese. I will probably do the same.

There is a very good write up about Artemisinin on the bone cancer dogs website.

Susan & Tazzie 2