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Originally, I posted a question asking for opinions on cancer treatments and if there is a better and more effective way to deal with cancer vs. chemo and radiation. Are we really being given good information for cancer treatment?

My dog was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth. She has a tumor under her tongue, and it was spreading into her tongue and on the other side. The vet gave her weeks, maybe a couple of months to live. She gave me Rx's for pain meds and told me to prepare, there was no curing this. But she sent me a whatsapp a couple of days later with a video of a guy claiming to cure his dog's cancer with molasses and baking soda.

In my mind I knew this wasn't going to work. I'm a nurse for goodness’ sake, I am not one to fall for weird ass treatments but considering she had weeks to live, what harm is there in trying? At least I can sit back and say I tried instead of just waiting for her to die. Chemo and radiation will not help in her case.

I posted her 1st update about a month ago. What I am doing is I buy empty gelatin capsules from Amazon and fill them with baking soda. I give her a pretty hefty dose, 3 large capsules twice daily. I'm supposed to give it with some molasses and she would gag it down because I asked her to, but it was gross and she hated it. I understand the thinking behind the molasses, it's the sugar that is the goal, it does not matter where the sugar comes from. So I bought her organic maple syrup to replace the molasses. She LOVES it. I hide the capsules in her chicken and squirt about a tablespoon of maple syrup in the bottom of her bowl. (My friend loves waffles and chicken, so I figured it can't be all bad, right?)

After 1 month I took her to my vet and my vet was floored, she's gaining weight and looking great, but she only has weeks to live. Turns out, the tumor shrunk. You know the size of a peanut in the shell? The double bubble kinda shell with peanut in it? That was the size of the tumor, on top of that it was growing in and throughout the back of her tongue. After a month of baking soda and maple syrup the actual tumor was just as long as the peanut but it was much more narrow. It wasn't nearly as wide as it was.

I JUST got back from my vet. I mean like 15 minutes ago. The tumor has shrunk significantly. It is not IN her tongue or out the other side anymore, Now it is confined to a small tumor about the size of less than a miniature marshmallow. But, that's not all! It's also turning gray. The tumor is dying. The baking soda/molasses treatment is working.

About a week ago, I added fenbendazole. It's similar to Ivermectin, it's an antiparasitic, but people are having seriously good results with it for cancer. It typically takes about 3 months for the tumor to start shrinking on fenbendazole so really, the progress here has been the baking soda and organic maple syrup.

My vet was floored, she and her husband are both vets and they both did her biopsy. She ran out of the room yelling for her husband to come in. (I live in Mexico) She was talking so fast in Spanish that I couldn't understand her but I did catch cancer and baking soda.

He came in and his attitude looked like he was rolling his eyes. Meaning, he wasn't literally rolling his eyes, but you could tell that is how he felt. They both looked at the tumor and he was shocked, floored, stunned. He wiped that attitude off his face and was thrilled, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He grabbed his camera and we tried to get photos but I dare you... take a photo of the underside of your dog's tongue! It can't be done easily. ;o)

I want to document this from beginning to end, however it turns out. My vet is not overly thrilled with my idea but it's not going to harm my dog so she's going along with it. I want her sedated and then a good quality photo, like what I have when she had the biopsy done. I want to show people photos of before, during, and after... whatever "after" brings us. So next week she has an appt. They want to do it in the OR even though she's not having surgery of any sort, but they have all their rescue equipment in there so I am good with it. They are just going to give her a bit of a sedative just to knock her out enough so they can take good photos.

She gets about 3gms of baking soda twice daily (BTW.. it MUST be Arm & Hammer brand, and the reason is the generics contain aluminum. A&H does not, apparently.) I give her about a tablespoon of organic maple syrup twice daily with the baking soda. A week ago I started her on fenbendazole and with that she needs dietary fat to make the fenben absorb. So our routine is turning out to be a tablespoon of Olive oil with her fenben. 30 minutes later her food which is now crock pot chicken and steamed veggies.. no more kibble AT ALL. I was going to start her on Turkey Tail Mushroom powder...whatever that is ... I was going to start that today, but we decided against it. She's doing so well, why change what we KNOW is working, you know?

So it went from the size of a peanut in the shell and throughout the back of her tongue to about 3/4 of a miniature marshmallow in about 2.5 months and it's a deadly gray color. Before it was red and nasty looking, it LOOKS like dying tissue to me.

I really want to document this as carefully as I can. If this helps a person or their dog... damn...it's totally worth it.

YEA... my dog is doing great! Her attitude is better, she's more playful, she wants to go outside and run now... all because of baking soda. Who would have known???