K-9 Immunity™ is for use in dogs fighting serious illness such as cancer. It is made from the same pharmaceutical grade immuno-modulating compounds as our human grade Immune-Assist Critical Care Formula, but formulated specially for dogs. K-9 Immunity™ was first developed as an offshoot of Aloha Medicinals human cancer research and applied for treating cancer in Seeing Eye dogs, and is now available for your dog. Here is a supplement that has been used in thousands of dogs with cancer, and for more than 6 years in human patients. Talk to your vet about K-9 Immunity™, or order now and get started today! Now available without presecription in the USA and Canada.

 

Immuno-modulation in dog cancer – Understanding the treatment options

For hundreds of years, the best that medicine had to offer was treatment with blood-letting and leeches. And in many respects cancer treatment in the US is still at the leech stage. But there is a more modern approach to treating cancer, one that is being widely used throughout the rest of the world today. One that offers greater hope of a successful outcome than any previous therapy. But first, it helps to understand just what cancer is.

Cancer is the result of the body’s failure to recognize and destroy cells that do not replicate normally. The key to successful cancer treatment is to trigger the immune recognition response in the dog. When this happens, the dog's own body will usually destroy the cancer and leave behind only scar tissue. Why would the dog fail to recognize the cancer cells as invaders? In healthy dogs around 100 million cells replicate every day. Just by the shear number of cells replicating, some of them are bound to replicate with errors. One of the main functions of the Immune System is to identify and destroy these aberrant cells before they have the chance to pass that error along. It is only when the immune system fails to recognizes these 'bad' cells that they become cancer. What this means is that cancer is first and foremost an immune dysfunction disease. Because if the Immune System were working properly there would have been no chance for the cancer to begin in the first place. It would have been destroyed on a cell-by-cell basis as it happened. This is actually the process that occurs in all animals from the moment of birth onwards.

For cancer to occur, there are three things that must take place:

1. Some cells must have errors in replication for the process to begin. There are a number of things that will cause an increase in replication errors, things like toxins and radiation, and most importantly age. It is age that causes the greatest errors in cellular replication. That is why cancer is much more common in older dogs than in pups.
   
   
2. The 2nd thing that must happen is that the dog’s Immune system must fail to recognize the aberrant cell when they are formed. At the point of the initial error it is quite easy for the Immune System to overcome the single bad cell. But if that cell escapes detection and divides again, then the third step can and often does follow:


3. The third thing that must happen is that the Immune System must remain in a non-responsive state for some period of time for the tumor to continue replicating. Most of the time, the body will overcome the tumor in the first few days/weeks/month of its life and spontaneous remission will occur. But occasionally the tumor continues to evade detection and continues to grow until it becomes large enough for the veterinarian to detect.

The point at which the tumor is large enough to detect can take a long time, perhaps even years. By the time it is large enough to detect, it is already quite large: hundreds of millions of cells in size. By this point it is very difficult for the dog’s own immune system to mount an effective defense against the invader, the tumor, without some assistance.

The American concept of cancer treatment is to cut, burn or poison in an attempt to kill off the bad cells (cancer cells) while supporting the good cells (healthy cells). Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the methods of choice, and up until recently the best we have had to offer. While this may be the only treatment options available in America, in treating human cancer in most of the world, another component is added to these methods. It is called Adjunctive Immune Support. This is also proving to be one of the most promising frontiers in treating dogs with cancer. Immune support, along with conventional therapy, increases the effectiveness and results in higher remission rates.

The largest class of anti-cancer drugs being used in the world today is a class called heteropolysaccharide immunomodulators. These are compounds that trigger enhanced Immune Function, and hopefully, the patients 'Cancer Recognition Response'. These polysaccharide compounds bind to surface receptors on the various Immune cells and activate them. This means they either turn the cell on, or trigger the production of more of that type of cell, or trigger the release of certain chemicals (cytokines) such as the substance called Tumor Necrosis Factor. The very name itself tells exactly what it does. 'Tumor Necrosis Factor' means 'A Substance Which Kills Tumors' The reason this Immune System adjunct therapy is being used along with conventional therapy is because it works.

Some might say it is easy to get rid of cancer. You can simply take a knife and cut it out. But unfortunately, in doing so you have not removed the cause of the cancer, which is the immune dysfunction that allowed the cancer to proliferate in the first place. Nor have you addressed the cause when you kill the tumor off with chemotherapy, or if you burn the tumor out with radiation. All of these methods are useful in that they directly kill off the tumor cells, but ultimately they will fail and the cancer will return. Unless adequate steps are taken to trigger an effective and appropriate Immune Response. Without the adjunctive immune modulation treatment, the recurrence rate is so high that vets in America are hesitant to even use the word “Cure”. They have to use the term “In Remission” instead. That is because we know that the cancer is almost certain to return. Why? Because the same cause that allowed the cancer to start the first time is still present. After all the chemo, and the radiation, and the surgery are over and done with, the underlying cause is still there. Better to attempt triggering the immune recognition response along with the conventional therapy.

The most important thing you can do to help your dog through this trial is to provide him or her with whatever you can to help optimize the Immune Function. There are several good immunomodulator products on the market for people, but not many serious options for dogs. K-9 Immunity by Aloha Medicinals is the best that science has yet come up with for use as an adjunct in canine cancer therapy.
There are many aspects of the immune system which work together in triggering effective anti-cancer response. While the main mechanism seems to be the polysaccharide triggered immune modulation, there are secondary mechanisms which are also involved. There are small protein molecules present in the blood which act as immune identifier molecules, called Transfer Factors. On there own, these transfer factors do not seem to have any effect in cancer treatment. But our observation has been that they do add significantly to the effectivness of K-9 Immunity. Transfer Factor Plus by 4Life Research is a good product, and the one we usually recommend for use along with the K-9 Immunity. Other brands of transfer factor may work also. The combination of Transfer Factor Plus and K-9 Immunity seems to have the most powerful effect in turning cancer around, as well as being very quick acting. Most dogs on this combination experience dramatic improvements within the first ten days of use. Once you see it for yourself, there will not be much question of whether it is working or not.

Transfer Factor Facts and Frequently Asked Questions

 

There are unfortunately some websites that would have you believe that a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement will somehow bring about a cure of your dog’s cancer. Some sites even go so far as to claim "you have nothing to fear from cancer" Nothing could be farther from the truth. Cancer is a very serious issue. While multi-vitamin supplements can be an important addition, cancer is a diabolical disease, and it simply does not respond to vitamin therapy. These vitamin/mineral supplements are not seriously regarded in the medical and veterinary community as treatment options for cancer. Nor is there much in the way of third-party research available to back up these claims. With polysaccharide immune modulation adjunct therapy, this is not the case.

There are more than 10,000 independent research papers available on polysaccharide immune modulators and their use in cancer treatment. These are research papers from the National Institute of Health, Harvard University, Japanese Cancer Society and all of the other major, mainstream research organizations. When someone says, “Why aren’t these methods being more widely used in cancer treatment?” we can only point out that these are naturally occurring compounds and therefore they are difficult to patent. It is unfortunate that money rules medicine, but there are many cases where this is true. Until these immunomodulator compounds are synthesized and patented, the large U.S. Pharmaceutical companies (who are also the ones manufacturing the veterinary medicines and funding the veterinary schools) will not bring them to market. And when they do, you can bet your life they will cost more than they do now. Fortunately, there are companies like Aloha Medicinals who are on the cutting edge and producing these new compounds now. Take charge of your dog’s disease. Help him to Get Better. Improve her Quality Of Life.

It is important that you consult with your veterinarian to optimize all aspects of your dog’s treatment. We invite and encourage you to share this information with your vet. We would be pleased to share all of our research material with anyone who asks. Cancer treatment is much too serious and much too important to make the decisions by yourself.

NOTE ON DIET: When a dog is fighting cancer, his or her diet is one of the MOST IMPORTANT considerations. The dog will likely be building a lot of new tissue, and adequate protein and cell membrane compounds (omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids) are required. If insufficient protein is supplied with the diet, the body tends to rob it from other places, like the kidneys and liver. This most likely will lead to kidney and liver compromise, which is something your poor dog does not need on top of the cancer. But these complications can usually be avoided by watching the diet. There is an excellent article on dog cancer diet by the University of Florida Veterinary Professor, Dr.R.M. Clemmons, DVM, PhD. You can access this page at Dog Cancer Diet. Please pay attention to the diet. That is the one thing you can easily control which often times makes all the difference for a successful treatment outcome. STAY AWAY FROM GRAINS! Dogs did not evolve as grain eaters. Many of our commercial dog foods are based upon rice, wheat or corn. Yet left to their own, dogs will not graze in the wheat field. They evolved for the past million years to eat meat. Make sure the first ingredient on the dog food label is some type of meat. If you supplement the dogs food with table scraps (good idea), please limit the amount of rice. Feel free to add canned sardines (best), cottage cheese, eggs and meat such as hamburger or ground turkey. High fat content is good. And add fish oil capsules for the Omega 3-6-9 fatty acids. Costco stores have a good fish oil capsule that is cheap and stinky and tastes like fish. It's like candy for dogs. They love it. Just snip open the capsule and squeeze some out so the dog can smell it the first time, and after that you should have no problem with the dog taking the capsules. 3 or 4 a day is a good dose for an average 40-70 lb dog.

For an excellent article on immune effect in cancer treatment, please see Dr. Riordan’s article [PDF]. Note: some of the compounds in K-9 Immunity act as the co-stimulator molecules mentioned in Dr. Riordan’s article.

we would be pleased to recommend and provide further research materials on this subject at no cost. Please don't hesitate to ask. And you can always speak to a real person if you have questions. Call Aloha Medicinals Research Department at 775-886-6301

 

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