Reply #120: My dog had a cancerous tumor treated with canine interleukin-2 [View All]

[madison2000]

at the University of Wisconsin vet school 5 years ago and he is still cancer free. His tumor was injected once a week for 12 weeks. He only got sick after the first treatment.

Wow Liberal Veteran, I really did not know how or if IL-2 was being used to treat human cancers or other diseases. My dog was actually in a study sponsored by a pharmaceutical company so I did not have to pay for treatment except his films, visits, biopsies. I thought it was pretty cool that there was a cancer treatment which enhanced the immune system, as opposed to the ones which break it down. I brought him back for follow up biopsies for 2.5 years and they could never find any cancer cells. He is 12 now and has arthritis. I love telling people that he is a cancer survivor who had an experimental treatment that worked.

Good for you for fighting so hard to manage this disease.