Cancer Care for Pets

24/06/2024

We're getting back on the road again!!

Our clinical team are visiting practices and offering Vet and Nurse Oncology focused CPD. We are thrilled to be starting over at Claro Hill Vets in a few weeks time!!

Neil will be discussing "What to do when you find a lump" and Kirsty will be discussing quality of life management for our patients, and how to ensure this remains the focus of all our treatments decisions!

31/05/2024

Lymphoma is one of the most common cancers we treat here at Cancer Care for Pets and we thought it would be a lovely idea to share the story of one of these special patients, from beginning through to end of life care. Hulk’s story is one such story, and while it is a very emotional one, we feel it perfectly represents our values and aims as a practice. We cannot thank Hulk’s owners, Craig and Francesca, enough for allowing us to share his journey. We have two sides to this post, one in the words of our wonderful nurse Holly, and then from Craig and Francesca. We are so grateful for their incredibly kind and touching words about our care for Hulk and for our team!

Lymphoma is one of the most common cancers we treat here at Cancer Care for Pets and we thought it would be a lovely idea to share the story of one of these special patients, from beginning through to end of life care. H...

08/05/2024

Happy National Receptionists' day to our front line hero, Diane!

Diane has been with us since January 2023 and has over 15 years experience as a veterinary receptionist! She is likely to be your first point of contact when you come and see us, and is always on hand with kind words, pet cuddles and cups of tea!

It is also Diane's birthday today! Happy Birthday Diane 🥳

Here she is last week with her MVP Golden Llama for her incredible support to the clinical team on a daily basis! We'd be lost without you!!

07/05/2024

Gorgeous Billy!!

Billy was referred to the team last October for staging and treatment of an a**l gland tumour. This involved a CT scan and sampling the mass, followed by surgery and chemotherapy, paired with tennis balls and cocktail sausages!!

Here's Billy celebrating reaching the end of his chemotherapy last week with a special doggy cupcake! We will see this happy, bouncy ball of energy again for a review in 3 months time!

15/04/2024

We are delighted to have moved into our new, extended work space!

We now have a second dedicated consultation room and a large treatment room, which allows us to carry out procedures and treatments away from the hustle and bustle of our main patient prep area!

More details on our website post:

https://cancercareforpets.co.uk/f/ccfp-workspace-extension

15/04/2024

We are delighted to have moved into our new, extended work space!

We now have a second dedicated consultation room and a large treatment room, which allows us to carry out procedures and treatments away from the hustle and bustle of our main patient prep area!

Cancer Care for Pets has seen a steady increase in demand since opening and we have found ourselves more than a little pushed for space in the last few months! We are delighted that within our partner practice, Donaldson...

17/12/2023

A very happy birthday to Eugene. Look at him loving life 🥳❤️🎉

03/11/2023

Well done to our partner practice Donaldson's Vets for maintaining their RCVS hospital accredited status!
We're incredibly proud to be hosted at such a fantastic facility, allowing us to provide the very best for for our patients!

A short video to explain the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme and the benefits it offers for you and your animal.

02/11/2023

Today marks the first day of Pet Cancer Awareness Month!

As in people, early diagnosis is often key to more successful treatments. We aim to provide education and clarity alongside treatment, for both our pet families and referring primary care vets!

We will be using this month to highlight different tests, procedures and treatments some of our amazing patients go through during their cancer journey, and show you how we can make it a positive experience for them, their families and our team!

28/10/2023

Happy Halloween to the adorable Eugene 🎃

It’s hard to be spooky when you’re this much of a cutie 🥰

01/10/2023

We received a wonderful video today of Blu, a German Shepherd who had a long operation at Cancer Care for Pets to remove his hind leg and half his pelvis following a high grade sarcoma diagnosis only four weeks ago.

To see him outdoors enjoying himself, full of life and (almost) keeping up with other dogs has made us so happy. We are delighted for Blu and his family.

42 likes, 2 comments. “My baby had his back leg removed because of cancer😭 his op was 30th august 2023. Now look at him go! Nothing is stopping him😍 he has done amazing in just a short period of time❤️”

05/07/2023

🎊2 years!🎊

Today we celebrated our birthday, in the only appropriate way, with cake!!

We've had a busy year full of wonderful patients, families, growth, and moonlighting on TV! We've expanded our team, our equipment, services and our species treated!

We wouldn't want to be anywhere else and are incredibly greatful for our truly caring, compassionate and talented team and for Donaldson's Vets for continuing to be a valuable and supportive partner.

We'd love to see some of your smiling happy fur babies, past and present, just drop them in the comments ❤️

04/07/2023

Channel 5, 8pm tonight! Our wonderful team debut with our electrochemotherapy unit coming to the aid of a very special little goat 🐐 We can't wait for you to meet Eugene ❤️

You can also read more about electrochemotherapy on our website:

https://cancercareforpets.co.uk/f/electrochemotherapy-at-cancer-care-for-pets

30/05/2023

We're all back from our weekend Congress and thought we'd use this final chance to shout about our amazing nursing team for vet nurse awareness month!!

ESVONC is an annual Congress with a dedicated 2 day nurse stream, which includes lectures from some of the world's leading oncologists and oncology nurses! This year saw an amazing mix of lectures and practical workshops and also provided the opportunity to network and socialise with fellow dedicated oncology RVNs, a currently rare but growing breed!

The RCVS requires nurses to complete at least 15 hours of CPD a year to maintain their registration, something our enthusiastic team never struggle with! The more relevant CPD we undertake, the more we can improve the experiences of our patients and their families!

We will certainly aim to have the whole team with us at the Congress again next year!

24/05/2023

We are away at that annual ESVONC Congress from tomorrow until Sunday!

This is an excellent opportunity for the team to keep up to date with all the latest oncology news and developments through presentations and work ahops. This counts towards our continued professional development, for both our vets and our nursing team! It also gives us the chance to meet with colleagues in this country and from around the world to share any day to day tips and tricks and build up our own network!!

If you need veterinary advice, please email us as we will be checking the emails over the weekend. We will get back to you when we can.

If you are concerned about your pet or need urgent care, please call your primary care vets first.

24/05/2023

We are away at that annual ESVONC Congress from tomorrow until Sunday!

This is an excellent opportunity for the team to keep up to date with all the latest oncology news and developments through presentations and workshops. This counts towards our continued professional development, for both our vets and our nursing team! It also gives us the chance to meet with colleagues in this country and from around the world to share any day to day tips and tricks and build up our own network!!

If you need veterinary advice, please email us as we will be checking the emails over the weekend. We will get back to you when we can.

If you are concerned about your pet or need urgent care, please call your primary care vets first.

06/05/2023

Expert Phlebotomists!

We see many of our patients week in week out, and need to take frequent blood samples to check various cell counts before administering any chemotherapy drugs. This means we need to build a bond and earn the trust of these special guys to make it a positive experience for everyone!

Our nurses are experts at collecting blood samples with minimal stress, based on the needs of the individual patients!

Patients can grow to resent traditional restraint methods, so rather than forcing them into the positions we think we need, we've learned to allow them to adopt a more relaxed stance, and take what access we can get! We do this by throwing all the tricks of the trade into the mix!

Super quiet clippers? ✔️
Local topical anaesthetic cream? ✔️
Crawling around on the floor? ✔️
Sitting patients on our knees? ✔️
Bribing then with high reward treats? ✔️ ✔️

Our new internal laboratory machines are also able to run a full health screen on a much smaller sample size than we have previously needed, meaning a quicker overall procedure and a fast track to the treats!

04/05/2023

Lovely Louie! Today we had the pleasure of this super boy's company! He is just the sweetest and used it to milk us for all the top tier snacks in the fridge ❤️

03/05/2023

❤️ Cooper ❤️ Just a smiling staffie enjoying the spring sunshine more than a year after being signed off by our team!!!

While the previous brindle leg belongs to another beauty, we couldn't resist sharing a more flattering angle of this special boy!

02/05/2023

May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month!

Veterinary Nurses are highly trained professionals, who work in complementary roles to the Veterinary Surgeons, much like doctors and nurses in human medicine!

Nurses are registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and, following their qualification and registration, are required to complete annual continued professional development, in order to maintain and improve their skills and knowledge!

We are incredibly proud of our team of Veterinary Nurses, without whom we simply would not be able to function! They are highly skilled, compassionate and knowledgeable about all aspects of patient care, not only the cancer specific elements.

We'll be giving you a peek behind the curtain by showing you snapshots of our amazing nurses in action throughout the month!

02/05/2023

Our phone lines are now back up and running!

Thank you for your patience

02/05/2023

We are currently having problems with our phone lines and they are not connecting. We are working to be back up and running as soon as possible!

Please use and email until we are back up and running

[email protected]

20/12/2022

It's that time of year again!

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful patients and their families and also to our lovely network of referral practices!

We will be closing over the bank holidays to give our hard working team a well deserved rest! This means we are unavailable from Friday 23rd to Wednesday 28th December.

If you have an urgent medical concern over this time, please contact your primary care practice.

Anything none urgent can be sent to us via email and we will get back to you ASAP after the break.

If you need any medication for this period, please call us directly either tomorrow or Thursday, and we can arrange some for you to collect to tide you over the break.

22/10/2022

Neil, Kirsty and Holly were on the road this Friday, heading out to Wicstun Veterinary Group in East Yorkshire!

It's been one of our aims to make cancer care more accessible to more patients and we are delighted to that we will be working with Wicstun on a regular consultancy basis!

Their state of the art practice in Market Weighton allows us to offer the very same level of services and care as we do in Huddersfield, including chemotherapy, CT scans and advanced surgical procedures.

The teams there share our ethos of patient focused care and have been very welcoming, helping us find our feet and our way around the practice!

Don't worry, this won't affect our hours in Huddersfield as we continue to be available as normal, Mondays to Thursdays!

08/10/2022

WE'RE GETTING BIGGER!

We are delighted to be able to announce that from 5th December Dr Giulia Ferrari will be joining Cancer Care for Pets on a full time basis.

Giulia has a GP Certificate in Veterinary oncology and a PhD from Edinburgh and has been in practice in Leeds for the last year. But...more importantly she shares the same ethos as us. That Cancer Care is all about patients and families, not just about disease.

I know that Giulia is looking forward to starting...and so are we.

31/08/2022

We are delighted to introduce you to our new full time nurse Holly!

Holly joined the team in July 2022, following a stint as a locum veterinary nurse. She has previously
worked as a senior medical nurse at both first opinion and referral practice. We are thrilled to
welcome Holly as she shares our core values around patient centred care, gentle handling and
anxiety reduction for all our patients. Holly has a particular interest in feline friendly practice and has
been instrumental in helping previous practices achieve their ISFM Gold Cat Friendly Clinic status!

Holly has fast become an integral part of our team, assisting her fellow nurses in the preparation and administration of chemotherapy medicines, undertaking theatre practice, imaging and diagnostic procedures with Neil and being a lovely friendly point of contact for all our pet owners!

02/08/2022

Meet the lovely Ruby!

As you can see from the first picture, when we first met Ruby she wasn't feeling her best. She was referred over to us due to weight loss, vomiting and her usual vet could feel a lump in her abdomen on examination.

After an initial appointment with Neil, we performed CT scan showing a large mass on her liver which luckily, was operable. A few more clear tests meant we could book Ruby in for liver-lobectomy in late June. This is removal of the affected, cancerous lobe of liver, leaving behind the healthy liver! Ruby then spent a night in hospital recovering from her procedure before returning to her delighted family the next day!

This is a picture following her successful surgery, and as you can see, Ruby is feeling much better and is back too her usual happy, mischievous self!

05/07/2022

Today is our first anniversary of opening our doors to the lovely people and pets of Yorkshire and beyond!

We opened with the intention of providing holistic cancer care to each and every individual who sought treatment with us and, we are incredibly proud to say that we have achieved this and more! We pride ourselves on our gentle care, patient bonding and client support. It is wonderfully rewarding for us to bring this approach to an often fast paced and stressful sector of veterinary medicine.

We can not believe how quickly this first year has gone and how many lovely, amazing people and animals we've met in this time.

Thank you all for you support, words of encouragement and for allowing us to buy some affection from you pets with cocktail sausages and gravy bones!

Neil, Kirsty and Jenna ❤️