Hi Max,

I just found this forum and see that your Erik was diagnosed well over a year ago with Squamous Cell Carcinoma. I pray you still have him with you.

My dog was diagnosed with frontal sinus Squamous Cell Carcinoma on 3/2/09. We have done surgery, 3 chemos, radiation, a TKI drug called Gleevec, Prioxicam, and a local chemo called cisplatin. I also have him on a grain free diet with 25% cancer fighting vegetables as his carb source and 75% meat as a protien source. I also give him a max amount of fish oil per day. I have thrown everything possible at his cancer. The latest was the radiation. I pray so much that the radiation did it because nothing else successfully cured him. We should know in a month when we can do another CT scan.

I also found out about an amazing sounding treatment that I would like to share with you in case you do still have your Erik. I have not researched it much yet, and the limited info I have found says it is only available in California, however, that could be old and perhaps it is available elsewhere now. Below is a brief explination of the treatment I just discovered today that I have copied and pasted directly from the source.

Additional Treatment Regimens
A new and promising treatment for SCC is called Photo Dynamic Therapy. It involves the use of a laser beam to selectively destroy cancerous tissue only. An injection of photosensitive chemical is given to a pet that has SCC. The only cells that absorb this chemical are the cancerous ones. It is only these cells that are destroyed by the laser, the laser beam harmlessly passes through the normal cells that do not absorb the photosensitive chemical. If one of our doctors feels that this therapy is appropriate, they will let you know. It is considered experimental therapy, and is performed locally only at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California at Irvine, on a referral basis only.

I would love to hear back from you and maybe we can share our stories with each other.

Sincerely,

Jackie and Bremen