Mary Allen
Our pets also get cancer. The most common are skin tumors, while udder tumors often occur in both dogs and cats. But why do our pets get tumors, and can they be prevented?
Why Do Our Pets Get Cancer?
– It can be said that there are two reasons that affect. Animals, just like us humans, get older, and then the risk increases that cell division no longer works. Aging also leads to a weaker immune system, answers Henrik Ronnberg, professor of oncology at SLU.
Henrik Ronnberg also talks about how the pets’ cells in the body work and how we as animal owners can, to a certain extent, prevent our animals from suffering from tumors.
Good Food and Healthy Living Help
– There are certain risk factors such as obesity and sun exposure of light cats and dogs. But with good food and a healthy lifestyle, you can go a long way, but chance can also determine who is affected. Then it is important to detect the tumor early through regular health checks and to examine the animal itself.
The earlier the problem is detected and remedied, the better the prognosis is that the animal can also cope with the malignant tumors. Pets are mainly treated with the help of surgery. Radiation therapy is used to a lesser extent, while chemotherapy treatments can be successful if the right conditions exist.
Is It Ethically Correct for Cancer to Treat Its Animal?
– I think it is ethical to treat an animal that has the conditions to feel better and has a good life after the treatment. But not if you expose the animal to a treatment that causes greater suffering than the underlying disease itself, says Henrik Ronnberg.