ULTRA-DILUTED VISCUM ALBUM IN THE TREATMENT OF CUTANEOUS MELANOMA IN A DOG (CANIS FAMILIARIS) - CASE REPORT
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Published:2021-04-15
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Page:53-56
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Container-title:PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH
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language:en
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Author:
Viana Valle Ana Catarina1, de Carvalho Aloísio Cunha1
Affiliation:
1. Doctor Izao Soares Institute, Integrative Medicine. Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.
Abstract
Background: Cutaneous melanoma is one of the tumors with the highest incidence in middle-aged dogs. Effective
systemic treatments for advanced malignant melanoma are lacking, and survival is about 1 to 3 months. Viscum album
therapy is among the complementary therapies against cancer. A 7-year-old Dogue de Bordeaux female d Methods: og.
The main complaint was an ulcerated lesion in the right anterior leg. The animal had already been diagnosed with
malignant cutaneous melanoma 11 months before. Extensive ulcerated lesions in the fourth digit of the right anterior leg,
mandibular region, and labial commissures were observed for more than nine months, with no resolution of the initial
condition. Pulmonary metastasis in the left caudal lobe, two evolving breast tumors, and several blackish nodular lesions
spread through the abdomen, lower eyelids, and auricular pavilions were already diagnosed. An injectable,
-3 homeopathic treatment was prescribed and consisted of an intravenous application of Viscum album D3 (1x10 ) and
-3 -6 auto-hemotherapy, once a week. At home, the tutor performed applications of Viscum album D3 (1x10 ), D6 (1x10 ), D12
-12 -30 (1x10 ), D30 (1x10 ), in combinations, SID, subcutaneously, three times a week. The protocol administ Conclusion: ered
to the patient in this study was successful in its purpose. It healed the wounds and improved the patient's quality of life.
Other studies must be conducted, under the same conditions, to better elucidate the results obtained in the present
study.
Publisher
World Wide Journals
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