Cancer and dogs
John Rennie
Back in 2009, I patted our dog Newman on the head for what I later calculated was about the 15,000th time. That time proved different from every other, however. My fingers found an unexpected depression half the size of a ping-pong ball above and behind his right eye. That was how my wife and I discovered that our dear pet had a brain tumor, and it marked the beginning of a nearly two year adventure in learning how dogs are treated for cancer—and how, for better or worse, their treatment differs from what humans receive. Read more about it in my Txchnologist story "Cancer and Dogs: One Pet's Tale."
Anahad O'Connor was nice enough to take note of my piece in a "Well Pets" column that she wrote for The New York Times, entitled "Chemotherapy for Dogs."
This memorial to Newman also wouldn't be complete without the beautiful video that my wife put together for him:
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