Supplements, Herbs, Cancer in Pets
In this video, Nancy Scanlan spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Supplements, Herbs, Cancer in Pets" at the 35th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Nancy Scanlan
NANCY SCANLAN, D.V.M., F.S.F.P., C.V.A. received her Bachelors Degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1968 and her D.V.M. Degree in 1970 from the veterinary school at the University of California, Davis, California. She became interested in nutritional therapy during her senior year in veterinary school, after reading a book about the effects of vitamin E for heart failure. She received permission to try it on a patient in her charge, and the results sparked her interest in nutrition and nutraceuticals.
She became certified in Veterinary Acupuncture through the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society in 1989, and her studies in Chinese herbs added them to her tools to help fight cancer. She also uses Western herbs, homotoxicology and nutritional and nutraceutical therapy to help her cancer patients. Trigger point therapy and massage therapy are also part of her regimen, in selected patients. A patient’s mental state is part of the program too, and the desires of the pet are always considered during treatment.
Dr. Scanlan is active in the holistic veterinary world. She is currently Vice President of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (AHVMA), Vice President of the Veterinary Botanical Medical Association (VBMA), and Editor of the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Association. She is a board member and co-founder of the Veterinary Institute of Integrative Medicine (VIIM) and Veterinary Research Council (VRC), and on the Veterinary Advisory Board for Gulf Coast Nutritionals, Thorne Research, Inc., and Food Science Corporation.
She works as an independent contractor on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Sherman Oaks Veterinary Group at 13624 Moorpark Street in Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, (818) 784-9977. She is the facility’s holistic veterinarian, working with 6 other veterinarians who practice conventional medicine, although two are also certified in acupuncture and many use her guidance to include herbs and nutraceuticals for their patients.
Transcription
OK, there, in order to know how to fix cancer in animals, we have to know what are the causes. And we have a few things that are different about animals than people. And a big one is genetics. We boxers are have more cancer than any other breed. And there are is a tendency for specific cancers to occur in specific breeds. For example, he Manchus sarcoma is very common spleen type cancer in Labradors and golden retrievers. So we can kind of guess what's going to happen to your pet. You know, and there are some some types of cancer that can do some things to minimize osteosarcoma occurs more in the large breeds. And if we feed them a large breed type diet when they're puppies so that they glik grow more slowly, then down the road they're going to be much less likely to get bone cancer, which is a big problem for them. Environment is a big thing for animals as it is for people, and we see some in some of them some more specific things than we do for animals in this area. You know, there's not a whole lot we can do about air except go around with a respirator on her face. Same for the animals. But these other things that we can do things about. In animals, cancer goes a lot faster. Animals live for a shorter period of time than humans do. And the cancers in them develop more quickly. So we we look for a survival time in an animal, a one year survival time. It's like a seven year survival time for a person. So when people come to talk to me about cancer and how long do they have and what can I do and so on. It may sound like they have a relatively short time as compared with people and animals. But when you consider their total lifetime a goal of one year of quality life, survival time is actually a better goal than it sounds like. The most commonly actual cured cancers are skin tumors, other types of tumors. More commonly, we don't cure them, but we buy them a lot of quality time and they may even ask live for the full amount of lifespan and eventually die of that of that cancer, but die at a very old age for that animal, which is still an OK thing. So our goal is quality life and as long of a good life for them as possible, there is no one single cure for cancer. The things that work best like you can see for humans are combinations of treatments, not a single