Articles for tag: Cancer Diet, Lymphoma, Science Diet

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Special Diet Needs for Dogs with Lymphoma

It is devastating when your dog is afflicted with lymphoma. No doubt you want to do what is best for your dog’s health, which includes the food that goes into its body. It is important to provide nutritional food, such as proteins and vegetables for your dog rather than grains, sugars and carbohydrates, which feed ...

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The Arthritis Drug Methotrexate and Lymphoma

My mother-in-law last winter developed one of the worst cases of rheumatoid arthritis in her hands that her doctor had ever seen, so she prescribed the drug methotrexate for it in February. Methotrexate was to be taken every Tuesday, and gradually the dosage was upped. Incredibly, my mother-in-law, Claire, saw the swelling in her hands ...

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Burkitt’s Lymphoma: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures

There are so many rare diseases out there, but if you’re a person who has it or thinks they may have it, it isn’t so rare anymore. Such as Burkitt’s lymphoma. Burkitt’s Lymphoma is a rare form of cancer which is classified under non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, meaning, the lymphoma is found within the lymph nodes or ...

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Lymphoma in Dogs

Lymphoma or Lymphosarcoma is a common cancer in older dogs. It is an aggressive an malignant cancer that spreads quickly and has a high mortality rate if left untreated. Lymphoma usually strikes dogs between the ages of five and nine years, but any dog may come down with lymphoma. What is Lymphoma Lymphoma is the ...

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma- Cancer Caused by White Blood Cells

Doctors do not know what causes Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that 54,000 Americans are diagnosed with annually. What they do know is that Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases are on the rise, more than doubled since thirty years ago. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is seven to eight times more prevalent than Hodgkin’s disease, and there ...