News Article on Cancer Research

At the risk of sounding cynical - I've always pondered if there's too much money to be made TREATING cancer in humans, rather than curing it?

On the other hand, when it comes to our pets - we DEMAND cures....LOL! So if a secondary benefit is that we have to go to our Vets for our cancer cures, so be it! Maybe instead of supporting the various colored ribbons (the Pink Machine in particular) for human cancer "cures" - we should start a "Paws Against Cancer" program and truly make some headway?

Interesting. Just ran across this today. Of note is that my Dobie died of mammary cancer. As yet, I haven't lost a Scottie to bladder cancer, but my one is having ongoing issues with the urinary tract. Trying to keep on top of it all the time. Of note, according to the breeder my present girls came from, European Scottie lines do not typically suffer from the same bladder problems.

My last white Scottie Neal was in a study being conducted by researchers at Tufts and elsewhere; the research being conducted at North Caroline State, I think. He had a condition known as cerebellar abiotrophy or CA. The purkinje cell in the cerebellum would die off at an abnormally high rate. It affected movement. Hind legs were the first to go and it would continually progress. Some puppies were affected and couldn't walk by 7 months. Fortunately Neal was able to stumble around till long after that. He died at 13 1/2, but couldn't walk by then. The study which inclulded 33 Scotties and two other breeds took their blood and extracted the DNA. Then they worked to isolate the cell causing the abnormality. Once they did that, they are going to develop a blood test for genetic testing. This insidious disease affects humans as well. So hopefully both man and animal would be helped by this. Estimated time for all this was 10 years at the outset.

I always told Neal he was famous!

Dale

Fantastic, we can help them while they help us.