Episodes

What you do in the days and weeks before surgery can help your dog sail through!

Whether you are seeing a veterinary oncologist once to get your options, or choose to pursue treatment, you should maximize your investment in that expensive specialist consult.

How do I know if my dog is dying? There are 26 signs you can look for.

Want an idea of what you are dealing with when it comes to your pet’s health? There’s a new online calculator that offers a wealth of insight!

Heather’s veterinary oncologist wants to use radiation on her dog with transitional cell carcinoma. Is that a good idea?

It’s a good idea to get your dog cancer story in alignment with your dog’s cancer story ASAP.

To say AI in veterinary medicine is a game-changer may be the understatement of the 21st century.

Are T-cell infusions still experimental in dogs? Who qualifies, and what are the things we should think about if our own dog has lymphoma?

Why isn't there an alternative to chemotherapy for dogs with cancer like osteosarcoma? Regulation! Let's nerd out on the regulatory process with a biotech entrepreneur.

Veterinary oncologists are using the drug Palladia for dogs with many types of cancer now. Dr. Megan Duffy explains why.

Can you write your way through grief? Sheila Cooperman’s True Tail about Tucker the Boykin Spaniel suggests it can help.

When the end nears, the choices seem to narrow to dog euthanasia or a natural death. Is that the best way to think about it?

Worms are helping screen dogs for cancer by sniffing their urine. Could this new screening method help catch dog cancer early?

Patrick’s puppy has a bladder mass. It’s desperately unfair … but is it Patrick’s fault his dog has cancer?

Cementoplasty has helped humans stabilize bones for decades. Now it’s being used in dog bone cancer.

Something happens to the human brain when we hear the word “cancer” – and it doesn’t help our dogs.

Reeling as you try to cope with a dog cancer diagnosis? We’ve got you. Here are seven tips on how to handle the ever-changing landscape of dog cancer.

Your dog won’t eat. What on earth do you do? Dr. Susan Recker has lots of great advice for how to get a dog to eat that refuses to do so.

Just realized you and your spouse or significant other dramatically disagree on how to handle treatment or euthanasia decisions? Today’s guest has tips.

Dr. Amanda Hensley says every pet should have pet insurance, in part because you can “pay ahead” on your likely $10K in unexpected pet health expenses.

“The days of doing a siloed approach to science are long gone. Now that we can sequence genomes, now that we can map genomes, everything needs to be integrated,” says Dr. Elaine Ostrander of the National Institute of Health.

Dr. Nicole Sheehan is a relentlessly open-minded integrative veterinarian and a liver detox expert.

Tracie is thinking her dog’s mast cell tumor might benefit from Panacur (fenbendazole). Are there any other repurposed drugs she might consider?

Biology professor Amanda Kin explains apoptosis as if it’s an episode of Law & Order: SVU. Is the cell dying by accident, suicide, or murder?