While waiting at the vet, I got to talking with another dog parent who told me about a study in Japan where they found that ripe bananas may help with fighting cancer. Of course, thanks to the Internet I find that there is a great deal of doubt about the study. But at least for the person I spoke with, their dog was given a couple months to live, and that was over a year ago - and they have fed the dog about 1/4 ripe banana a day. Of course there may have been other factors, but my dog likes bananas anyway, and it seems safe enough, so I will be adding it to her diet, in a small amount since too much can cause some other problems.
Had some bad news recently, the mutt has a cancerous tumor (transitional cell carcinoma) in her bladder. It started when I noticed she was having to go pee a lot more often and seemed to be straining. We initially thought it was an infection, but it did not clear up, so here we are (after a couple urinalysis, an ultrasound and a biop$y). She just got her first dose of chemotherapy today which she is doing really well with - they will be using a mix of a drug called mitoxantrone and an NSAID which they think may help her get up to a year of survival. Unfortunately there is no good surgical fix for this. We are going to do what we can for her, and hopefully the time we have with her will add some good memories for both of us.
While waiting at the vet, I got to talking with another dog parent who told me about a study in Japan where they found that ripe bananas may help with fighting cancer. Of course, thanks to the Internet I find that there is a great deal of doubt about the study. But at least for the person I spoke with, their dog was given a couple months to live, and that was over a year ago - and they have fed the dog about 1/4 ripe banana a day. Of course there may have been other factors, but my dog likes bananas anyway, and it seems safe enough, so I will be adding it to her diet, in a small amount since too much can cause some other problems.
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