If you were just diagnosed today
Two things matter in the first days, before any treatment decision: understanding what you are facing, and preserving the option to act. Start with these.
Preserve the tumor sample
If surgery is coming, how the tumor is stored decides which future options stay open. A simple request to your vet, explained.
What blood tests can and can't do
Screening and early-detection tests, what the peer-reviewed data actually shows, and the honest catch.
Guides by cancer type
Deep, cited guides organized by diagnosis. Each pillar walks you from what the cancer is through the full range of treatment options.
Hemangiosarcoma
An aggressive blood-vessel cancer, often of the spleen or heart. The disease, the survival numbers, immunotherapy, the vaccine landscape, and where personalized approaches fit.
Melanoma
Why location decides everything (oral, skin, nail-bed), how stage drives prognosis, and the honest evidence on the ONCEPT vaccine.
Mast cell tumors
The most common canine skin cancer, why grade decides almost everything, and every treatment option including Palladia.
Osteosarcoma
Bone cancer of large and giant breeds: why it spreads early, the real survival numbers with and without chemotherapy, amputation, and pain control.
Lymphoma
A whole-body cancer of white blood cells: why B-cell versus T-cell changes everything, how chemotherapy works, and the honest remission and survival numbers.
More cancer types
Soft-tissue sarcoma, bladder cancer and others are being added as each guide is written and reviewed.
Understanding treatment and vaccines
Cross-cutting explainers that apply across cancer types, for when you want to understand how the newer options actually work.
How personalized cancer vaccines work
Plain-language walkthrough of how a vaccine can be built from a single dog's own tumor.
Personalized vs. shared-antigen vaccines
The two families of dog cancer vaccine, how they differ, and what the evidence says about each.
Read the evidence honestly
The single most useful skill for a cancer decision is telling a strong result from a weak one. Our guides label every claim by the strength of its evidence, and cite the primary source.
How to read a cancer study
Medians, ranges, cohort size, study design, and the traps in survival statistics, in plain language. The skill that turns a scary number into information.
The vaccine evidence scoreboard
Every dog cancer vaccine approach, graded by the strength of the evidence behind it.
The Research & Evidence Library
Every guide and explainer in one place: the hemangiosarcoma series, treatment and vaccine explainers, cancer-type guides, and owner guides, each cited to the research.
Get help and look things up
When you need a specialist, a clinical trial, help paying for treatment, someone to talk to, or just a plain-English definition of a word your vet used, start here.
Find help near you
How to find a board-certified veterinary oncologist, search clinical trials, reach financial-assistance funds, and call free pet-loss support lines.
Clinical trials
Where to search for canine cancer clinical trials, what enrollment usually involves, and the questions to ask before your dog takes part.
Financial aid & support
Assistance funds that help with the cost of cancer care, plus free pet-loss support lines when you need someone to talk to.
What the words mean
Median survival, margins, grade, stage, metastasis, neoantigen and more, defined clearly and honestly without being dumbed down.
Questions to ask your oncologist
A free, printable checklist to bring to the appointment: general questions for any cancer, plus short sets for the common types.
About RosieVaccine
We build personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs.
RosieVaccine designs vaccine candidates; we do not provide veterinary care. If an authorized research protocol proceeds, your dog's treating veterinarian would decide whether taking part is clinically appropriate and would administer any investigational product, within an established veterinarian-client-patient relationship. No product is licensed or currently available, and there is nothing to purchase. If you want to follow the work or explore a research collaboration, you can register your interest.
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Important
This guide is for general educational purposes only. It is not veterinary medical advice, and it is not a claim of clinical efficacy for any treatment. RosieVaccine is a research-stage design service; there is no licensed or available product. Survival statistics are population results and do not predict any individual dog's outcome. Do not start, stop, or change your dog's care based on this guide. Every decision belongs with a licensed veterinarian who has examined your dog.