The Vaccine Against Canine Cancer Study vet researchers are still actively recruiting healthy dogs in Colorado. Colorado State needs 135 more dogs to reach their goal of enrolling 285 canines.
Petco Foundation and Blue Buffalo have donated $825,000 to 11 research centers across the U.S. in support of cancer research.
While he’s best known as an innovator in veterinary cancer care and an early leader in the field of comparative oncology, Dr. Steve Withrow has a side passion for gardening. When COVID hit, he committed to maximizing the potential of his 27,000-square-foot fruit tree orchard, berry patches, and vegetable garden.
“I just can’t say enough about the oncology nurses at CSU… I know they treated her with so much compassion and love and that made it easier for me too,” Rachel Askeland says.
Dan Regan, an assistant professor in Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, was recently selected to receive the Boettcher Foundation’s 2020 Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.
Dr. Lynn Griffin started the study last year with an internal grant from CSU to fund the tests with six dogs. This year, the Morris Animal Foundation provided a $100,000 grant for her to continue the study in at least 30 other dogs.
A new cancer imaging technique is expected to significantly improve the ability to diagnose the disease’s spread to lymph nodes in dogs with head and neck tumors.
Three staff members from the CSU Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur, Mexico, traveled to Colorado to meet and exchange knowledge with their U.S. colleagues.
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"The other place that I’ve recently become involved with is 'Colorado State University of Veterinary Medicine' in Fort Collins. I happened to be there visiting friends on the way to California and my dog Kona, my Golden Retriever, would have died, because he had cancer in his heart. But they took him in and saved his life." -Tanya Tucker