The American Veterinary Medical Foundation says 4% of the estimated more than 160 million pets nationwide wide are insured.

Traditional cancer therapies, which include radiation, surgery to remove most of the tumor, and chemotherapy to kill any rapidly growing cells, are sometimes effective but are both expensive and may ...

Cancer is a leading cause of death in both humans and pets; studies suggest that between one-third and one-half of all dogs ...

Breast cancer survivor Breanna Bortner credits her dog with the early detection of her cancer. A young woman’s dog was the first to detect her deadly breast cancer. In June 2023, Breanna Bortner, then ...

Medium-sized dogs have a higher risk of developing cancer than the very largest or smallest breeds, according to a UC Riverside study. It is common for cells to acquire errors or mutations as they ...

Hello, everyone! This week, I want to revisit the topic of dog cancer. The statistics of dog cancer are frightening! One in two dogs will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. That’s alarmingly ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2022. Q: A friend’s dog recently died of cancer, and we want to do all we ...

A dog's superior sense of smell is helping to detect cancer at its earliest stages. Researchers take blood plasma from cancer patients and place them into one of eight canisters for the pups to sniff ...

Chloe's surgery was delayed after she ate a cheesecake, highlighting the unpredictability of pet care. My dog Chloe had a lump that scared us, but it turned out to be a benign lipoma. Surgery went ...