My Dog Has Cancer
Now What?
Your heart is breaking, your mind is racing.
You don’t know where to begin or what to do.
Take a deep breath! You are not alone.
Support, Guidance and Hope
Help Your Dog Fight Cancer is an extraordinary book. It is a crash course in canine cancer for dog owners. Readers often call the book their lifeline or their bible.
Author Laurie Kaplan is a medical writer and researcher who studied animal pathobiology and worked as a veterinary surgical assistant. Laurie’s mission is to help people who have a dog with cancer. She has helped many thousands through this book, and almost a thousand as founder of Magic Bullet Fund.
This book is a must read for anyone who has a dog with cancer. Easy to read, beautifully written and full of information you won’t find anyplace else. Many veterinary oncologists contributed and the renowned oncologist Dr. Villalobos is the book’s medical consultant.
What's inside?
- Choose a treatment plan
- Choose diagnostic tests
- Check your emotions
- Provide an anti-cancer diet
- Provide anti-cancer supplements
- How to cut treatment costs
- Side effects and what to do
- Join a support group
- When treatment isn't working
- and much more

What Readers Say
“It’s a bible of information that I relied upon time and time again. I have put tabs and highlights throughout the book.” — Linda for Mango
“My dog has cancer and until I read this book, I felt so alone.” — Jen for Manta
Laurie says, “When Bullet was diagnosed, I searched for a book to help us, but there were none. I wrote this book to help you give your dog the best chance to beat cancer. Bullet proved that dogs can survive cancer!” Read More
A Bonding Experience
While giving you guidance and support, Help Your Dog Fight Cancer will empower you to play an important role in your dog’s battle against cancer. Your dog is at the center of the fight and you will be the Captain of the team.
The journey you and your dog are facing together will be a momentous and unforgettable bonding experience. It may be difficult. It will probably make you happy at times and sad other times. But it will most certainly be a bonding experience. It will magnify your bond and bring you and your dog closer. I’m sure that right now you don’t believe you could possibly be any closer. You will be!
The History of Help Your Dog Fight Cancer
Before the 1990s, there were no veterinary oncologists at all. Oncology wasn’t offered as a board specialty for veterinarians. Only a handful of brilliant vets, including Dr. Alice Villalobos, offered cancer treatment for pets beyond the surgical removal of a tumor. Dr. Alice Villalobos was an expert in veterinary cancer treatment long before it was established as a specialty.
In the past 35 years, about 450 veterinarians have been board-certified in oncology. You can find a veterinary oncologist in your area here. There are also many vets who are not board certified but are expert in giving cancer treatments to pets.
Likewise, there were no books available to help owners of dogs with cancer until 2004, when Laurie Kaplan released the first edition of Help Your Dog Fight Cancer. Laurie interviewed top oncologists to compile and fact-check the book’s contents. Dr. Villalobos agreed to be the medical consultant for the second and third editions of the book.
Laurie and Dr. Alice went on to co-author another book. Laurie served as editor and consultant for Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology, Honoring the Human-Animal Bond. It is a text book for veterinary school students and an important reference for vets providing cancer treatment.
Help Your Dog Fight Cancer has been in so much demand that Laurie has expanded and updated it twice since its original release. The current third edition provides dog owners with a comprehensive crash course in canine cancer. To this day, there are no other books available that compare to this book.
Now, when a dog owner says “My dog has cancer,” often the response is, “You must read the book Help Your Dog Fight Cancer by Laurie Kaplan!”