Malignant Mast Cell Tumor Resolves With One Simple Therapy

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Researchers at Boston College, including one of the leading pioneer academic researchers in treating cancer as a metabolic disease, recently published a case report of a dog with malignant mast cell tumor disease whose cancer completely resolved with ketogenic metabolic therapy alone
• When mast cells, which are found in all the tissues of the body, replicate in abnormally high numbers, a mast cell tumor can be the result; in dogs, prognosis depends on the tumor location, the extent and grade of the tumor, and the type of treatment given
• The 7-year-old dog presented in the Boston College case report was switched to a calorie restricted, carbohydrate-free, raw ketogenic diet two years after diagnosis; over several months, the tumor gradually disappeared; the dog lived to age 15 and passed away from other causes
• Calorie restriction and restricted ketogenic diets have successfully reduced growth and metastasis in a range of malignant tumors in mice and humans; however, in none of those cases was resolution of the tumor achieved with diet alone, as in this case
• Integrative and holistic veterinarians can offer many additional complimentary, nontoxic therapies for pets diagnosed with mast cell tumors