Utah veterinarian Oncologist

You are the voice for your pet and are the only one who can advocate for quality health care. 

I would like to extend my deepest sympathies if you have found this page in need of an oncologist for you beloved furry family member. This is a reference list I created to help me determine available veterinarian oncologists within Utah. Some of the clinics offer board certified oncology specialists and other clinics provide veterinarians who may have been working in treating cancer patients long before there was an opportunity to specialize in the area. A board certified oncologist will have “DVACIM” after their name and clinicians with “DVM” may have an added 3-4 years’ worth of additional training and practice in oncology or internal medicine without the specific specialization and can be fully capable of providing cancer treatment.

Veterinarian Cancer Society

They are listed in no particular order.

  1. 9414 South 1335 East Sandy, UT 84092
    801-523-1176
    DVM only providers

    **** I would not recommend Mountain View Animal Hospital*****

    Note: This is the clinic I ultimately chose to administer Cody’s chemo see my comments below.

  2. 952 East 900 South
    Salt Lake City, UT
    84105

    Ph: 801 596 9005
    Email: info@uvhdc.com
    DVM only providers

    Note: On average they have a one week wait time to be scheduled for an appointment. They can refer cases to either AVC or Blue Pearl

  3. 1021 E. 3300 S.
    Salt Lake City, UT 84106 USA

    Phone: (801) 942-3951
    DVACIM Clinician

  4. Has two locations

    Important Note: I called and was informed that despite advertising oncology treatment at their clinics they do not in fact provide this service and refer clients to Blue Pearl and AVC of Utah
    Address:698 West 500 South, West Bountiful, UT 84087
    Phone:(801) 2945960
    Address:1977 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
    Phone:(801) 2945960

  5. Blue Pearl Veterinarian

    Address: 308 W 7200 S, Midvale, UT 84047
    Phone: (801) 871-0600
    DVACIM Clinician

    Note: My primary care veterinarian suggested the Oncologist at this clinic but after reading numerous negative reviews I couldn’t bring myself to take Cody here for treatment.

Choosing a Clinician

For me a good veterinarian office is going to have an abundance of literature for you to review either on their website or in their office. They should take their time to give you a very detail outline of what to expect with your chemo treatment and signs and symptoms to watch for at home.

Feline Lymphoma

I found this informative overview on Feline Lymphoma. Please feel free to read about diagnosis and treatment of Feline Lymphoma here.

My experience with Mountain View Hospital

Cody’s chemo rapidly progressed undetected after despite a month of chemo treatments and multiple trips to his primary veterinarian. Ultimately we had an in home euthanasia and I would not encourage anyone to seek out treatment from this clinic.

Update: 4/20/18 We are now 72 hours after our initial chemo treatment and it has been a wild roller coaster. The service received at Mt. View Animal Hospital was horrific. The technicians were ignorant and couldn’t answer any of my questions pertaining to home care and maintenance post chemo and of the feeding tube that was placed. I didn’t receive any science based at home care instruction literature. I barely spoke with Dr. Kanda pre chemo or post chemo and received the most vague and unreliable instructions. As a nurse I have to do patient teaching and give literature to take home with people because our emotions can run so high that we don’t hear everything being said to us. Therefore we heavily rely on those instructional hand outs for what symptoms to watch for to how much to flush through the feeding tube. I couldn’t be more disappointed in the care.

Cody ended up with and surgical infection within 24 hours of getting him home. There is no way that I would get through this without the combined effort of my local primary veterinarian taking the time to pick up the slack and give me the necessary instructions and re assurance that Mountain View Animal hospital failed to do.

4/18/18  All of the oncologists I found were at least a one hour drive away. So because of the long drive I wanted a veterinarian who would allow me to send them Cody’s ultra sound and lab results and conduct a tele-health aka remote visit and consultation. I wanted to reduce the driving stress for Cody by optimizing our time with the vet.

Sadly when calling all of the clinics none of the desk staff would allow me to talk to any of the veterinarians themselves and would put me on with a technician. All but one of the clinics insisted that I come to the preliminary office consultation visit before I could talk to any of their providers about treatment.

I chose Mountain View Animal Hospital in Sandy Utah because the Veterinarian, Dr. Kanda, had previously treated Cody in January for his hyperthyroid. She was more than willing to consult me over the phone, multiple times, leading up to his appointment. She allowed me to send her his ultra sound and diagnostics results prior to the appointment and she set up an immediate time to initiate his chemo. She understood that we were making a long drive and appreciated that we wanted to optimize our appointment time with her.

Be warned that you should bring yourself a snack or lunch when visiting this very busy clinic. The wait is typical of a busy human urgent care with a 30-45 minute wait time, even with an appointment.