I wish to share our poor experience with our dog's cancer treatments at VCA Aurora. Although we are not vets, my husband and I are both physicians and I have spent three months doing hematology/oncology at the foremost medical center in the Midwest so we are not without some knowledge of how these drugs work and their side effects. When our dog was first diagnosed with a malignancy in mid-January we were told that her prognosis was about 3-6 months. Chemotherapy was begun close to our home. At our first VCA visit one week later she was found to have a low white blood cell count secondary to the chemo and was given additional medication. At that time I mentioned to the veterinarian in charge of her care that my husband and I were aware of her grave prognosis and wanted her last days to be of the best possible quality and we did not want the dog to suffer from the effects of chemotherapy. At her second visit she was given a reduced dose of chemotherapy. After that dose of chemo she did h
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