Cancer Researcher Saves His Dog With Immunotherapy, Now Seeks A Clinical Trial For Humans
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
Michael Graner, PhD, a CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of neurosurgery at the CU School of Medicine, experimented on his dog. Before yells "Tesla!" and PETA gets up in arms, he did it for the best of reasons. At age 12, his great dane Star collapsed during a coughing fit. Graner discovered the cause: lung cancer, specifically advanced bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma with metastasis to the lymph nodes. The prognosis was grim, with a median survival from diagnosis of only about 6-27 days. And Star was well past the age when she could've tolerated chemotherapy or radiation. read more