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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(14):984; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn247
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Man's Best Friend Is Also a Friend of Cancer Research

Andrea Carter

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Dogs are no strangers to cancer research. More than 40 years ago researchers learned that cancer develops spontaneously in dogs, just as it does in humans. They also found that cancer cells viewed under the microscope look similar in dogs and humans. Now, two other developments—the completion of the sequencing of the canine genome in 2005 and the technology that has allowed scientists to look for genes and biomarkers associated with cancer—have brought dogs into the spotlight again. Several cancer studies . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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