Veterinary oncologists advance cancer drugs for humans and pets

Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 08:35 in Health & Medicine

As more pet owners are choosing to treat their pets' cancers through advanced medicine, veterinarians gain valuable knowledge about the progression and treatment of cancers in humans through pet trials of new drugs. To help organise nationwide trials in tumour-bearing dogs using cancer drugs, the National Cancer Institute has launched the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium (COTC). Faculty members in the University of Missouri's Scott Endowed Program in Veterinary Oncology participated in COTC's first trial...

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