The Animal Health Trust has announced a research project which aims to improve the way dogs are treated for cancer. As part of the project, the charity is appealing to veterinary practices to send samples taken from dogs diagnosed with cancer.

Using the…

A research project funded by equine charity The Horse Trust has succeeded in killing equine sarcoid cells in vitro by silencing a gene in the virus that causes sarcoids. The researchers are now hoping to obtain funding for clinical trials using the new…

The Animal Health Trust has cut the first sod of a new cancer centre for animals in Suffolk.

The AHT's Cancer Centre will provide all three treatment options: surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, on one site. The cancer facility is being purpose-built…

HRH The Princess Royal has opened the Animal Health Trust's new cancer treatment and research facility in Suffolk.

The facility has been purpose-built to treat horses, dogs and cats with cancer. It will also assist in furthering understanding…

The American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation has awarded Dr. Bruce Smith, director of the Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer, a two-year grant totaling $118,848 to test a new therapy for treating bone cancer in dogs.

According…

A new study carried out by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has found that human cancer patients who use alternative medicine are up to 5.7 times more likely to die…

Surrey-based North Downs Specialist Referrals reports that it has had 'extraordinary' results using electrochemotherapy, a form of targeted chemotherapy, after it eradicated all traces of disease in its first tranche of eight patients since the start…

The RVC has published a new study which has revealed several risk factors for canine lipomas, fatty masses which because of their large size and rapid growth often cause extreme and long-term anxiety to the owners of affected dogs.

The College says t…

The Animal Health Trust, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge is going to conduct new research to enable the creation of a blood test to identify Flatcoated Retrievers with early stage histiocytic sarcoma.

The charity says that although histiocytic…

The Royal Veterinary College has announced that work it conducted with King’s College London (KCL), the University of Edinburgh and University College London (UCL), has led to a breakthrough in the understanding of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)¹.

Squamous…

The Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP) has published a new study which it says supports the use of weekly proteinuria monitoring during the first month of masitinib treatment for neoplasia.

The study, titled “Development and progression of proteinuria…

Viennese biotech company BlueSky Immunotherapies says it has used its viral vector platform delNS to treat sarcoids in horses successfully, paving the way for a new cancer therapy in humans.

BlueSky says that conventional treatment for equine sarcoids…

A study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP) has found that lymphadenectomy, along with the resection of the primary tumour and adjuvant medical treatment, improves outcome for dogs with Kiupel high-grade cutaneous…

HT Vista has published the results of a small survey which indicates that vets who have been qualified for more than five years are 14% less likely to rely on palpation alone than clinicians with less than five year's experience, when diagnosing lipoma…

HT Vista has published the results of a survey which suggests that 62% of masses presented in practice are going untested.

This, says the company, highlights a missed opportunity for earlier cancer detection, which in turn limits the ability of veterinary…

The Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital (QVSH) at the University of Cambridge has joined forces with the Wellcome Sanger Institute to conduct research into osteosarcoma (OSA) in dogs, and is looking for research participants.

The new study will examine…