National Canine Cancer Foundation 
A golden heart remembered
This is a story of friendship, a story of love, of heartbreak, of a dog that brought a bunch of sassy ladies across the country together and changed our lives. When my Golden Retriever, Bailey, passed over Rainbow Bridge in ...
Family dog has terminal cancer and how they chose to spend his final months is a lesson for us all
Who said bucket lists were just for people? When the Ledford family adopted a St. Bernard named Odin in November 2017, they were overjoyed to welcome him into their family. But months later their feelings turned to sadness when they were ...
Why the Loss of Your Pet Could Be the Hardest to Bear
Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a dog. If you’ve ever lost a beloved pet, you know just how true that old adage is. From dogs to cats to canaries to lizards, we humans form unbreakable ...
Dog becomes first to survive clinical trial for one of the most deadly pet cancers – Hemangiosarcoma
Josie, a terrier mix from Owings Mills, Md., was the first dog to survive a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins Hospital aimed at finding a treatment for hemangiosarcoma, one of the most deadly cancers for pets. Josie was diagnosed in December 2017 ...
It’s not easy saying goodbye to our beloved pets
It was day three, and I knew it was time. Three days earlier, my beautiful dog Molly refused to eat. It was unheard of for a dog who spent the first few months of her life as a stray foraging ...
Canine Cancer Vaccines: What Are They and What Do They Do?
If your pet has recently been diagnosed with a canine cancer, you have probably been doing your own research about the array of treatment options available. Through your research, you may have come across cancer vaccines for dogs either in ...
Retired guide dog Isaac ticks off a list of dying wishes after cancer diagnosis
A young woman has embarked on an adventure with her cancer-stricken pet dog in the hope of creating happy memories together. Briana May, from Brisbane, started a bucket list after the retired guide dog named Isaac was tragically diagnosed with terminal ...
How Purebred Dogs Are Moving Cancer Research Forward
The idea of a dog helping to find a cure for cancer probably conjures images of golden retrievers sniffing blood samples and sitting dutifully in front of the cancerous specimen. But though their noses are valuable, there’s something much more useful hidden inside purebred ...
Getting Results from your donations
We have talked before about how our dog friends will be helping us humans as we fund canine cancer research, as many of the findings can be applied to human cancer. We haven’t talked much about how human cancer therapies ...
Missing Minnie: a dog’s death leaves a crushing sense of loss
In late March, my beagle-whippet cross, Minnie, died. Two months earlier, she had been diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma, an invasive cancer of the blood vessels that is rare in humans but kills thousands of dogs every year. We found Minnie at ...