Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
A case report: Pawspice for a visla with splenic lymphoma.
- Journal:
- The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice
- Year:
- 2011
- Authors:
- Villalobos, Alice E
- Affiliation:
- Pawspice at VCA Coast Animal Hospital · United States
Plain-English summary
This case report discusses a new approach called "Pawspice," which provides early supportive care for pets diagnosed with serious illnesses, like splenic lymphoma, a type of cancer affecting the spleen. The idea behind Pawspice is to improve the pet's quality of life by offering both gentle chemotherapy and palliative care, which focuses on relieving symptoms and discomfort. This method aims to enhance the pet's well-being by 30% to 50% while still managing the disease. Unlike traditional palliative care or hospice, which focus solely on comfort, Pawspice combines these elements to help pets live better for as long as possible. The outcome of this approach is intended to be a more compassionate way to support pets facing life-limiting conditions.
Abstract
This author's experience in oncology proposes "Pawspice," a new concept that offers early supportive care for pets with life-limiting disease, embracing palliative care and standard care. Pawspice offers compassionate and comprehensive symptom relief at diagnosis while addressing life-limiting diseases. The concept of Pawspice is to maintain quality of life with palliative care that improves the patient's debilitating conditions by 30% to 50%, while simultaneously administering standard care via gentle chemotherapy modified for low toxicity. This combination makes Pawspice different than palliative care (pain and symptom relief) or hospice (intense comfort care that precedes imminent death), which prevail in most conventional thinking.
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