EQUIPMENT to treat cancer patients at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne has been used after hours on pets for 17 years without the Victorian Government’s knowledge or approval.
After a Sunday newspaper reported that 22 animals had been treated at the hospital’s William Buckland Radiation Centre since 2005, it emerged that the practice had been going [...]
Veterinary care for animals with cancer has developed into a vast array of treatment options for pet owners, and Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has been part of a nationwide surge in the study of oncology in cats and dogs.
According to MSU, the MRI technology added within the past year and the [...]
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A new study jointly conducted by Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute may one day help not only our canine friends with cancer, but also people with the human form of the disease.
Forging this unique relationship is OSU veterinary oncologist and researcher Stuart Helfand, D.V.M., [...]
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Biologists at the University of Rochester have found that small-bodied rodents with long lifespans have evolved a previously unknown anti-cancer mechanism that appears to be different from any anticancer mechanisms employed by humans or other large mammals.
Understanding this mechanism may help prevent cancer in humans because many human cancers originate from stem cells and similar [...]
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Carolyn Sharp’s beloved greyhound Starr was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with a deadly form of cancer.
Sharp decided the two of them would stay together as long as Starr was not suffering too much. The greyhound received radiation treatments and pain patches for several months until the veterinarian told Sharp it was time [...]
A zebra’s stripes, a seashell’s spirals, a butterfly’s wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the delicate design of a butterfly’s wings come from a single fertilized egg? How does pattern emerge out of no pattern?
Using computer models and [...]
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The Tasmanian devil, a feisty marsupial that lives only in the Australian island state of Tasmania, was deemed an endangered species this week by the state’s government.
The government had previously classified the creature as vulnerable. But its more critical status comes in response to a fatal epidemic of devil facial tumor disease, which [...]
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They are both amputees: She lost part of her right leg to bone cancer at the age of 10, and he lost part of his left leg four months ago because of an injury he most likely suffered at a Brooklyn slaughterhouse.
Her name is Jenny Brown, and she is a 36-year-old television producer turned animal [...]
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