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Hi Jerry - Brice had 4 rounds of carboplatin chemotherapy, his first one was 3 weeks following his surgery, he was initially supposed to go every 3 weeks, but was usually closer to 4 weeks and his dosage was lowered slightly because his white cell count was really low every time. After that we did 6 months of cyclophosphamide (one pill daily), we stopped after 6 months because I was worried about him possibly developing kidney problems (he didn’t but we were told that the drug manufacturer claimed 50% of patients did at 1 year, and our vet said that his experience put that number at 90-95%) so we decided to quit while we were ahead. Bruce hasn’t had any x- rays since June of 2017, and until we feel there is a need we won’t do any. The only time he sees the vet now is for a yearly exam and to get heartworm and tick preventions. 

Hi Riots mom, your pup is gorgeous!!! One thing I had heard was that a low white count was a good sign that the chemo was doing its job, I don’t know whether there is any truth to that or not, but hopefully it’s a good sign. The cancer clinic we went to was an hour and a half drive, so we started going to our local vet for bloodwork ahead of the chemo (a day before our appt) and if the white count was too low he’d be rescheduled to go to the cancer clinic 7-10 days later and have another test there before his chemo was administered.