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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Two recent studies have shown real progress in killing cancer cells in dogs. The first study, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, reports that myxoma, a pox virus that affects rabbits but not humans, dogs or other vertebrates studied so far, infects several different types of canine cancer cells in cell culture while sparing healthy cells. The study adds to the evidence that viruses or modified viruses will emerge as...

DENVER, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- It's been more than a year since Peggy Mitchell's dog, Emily, died of cancer, but the grief is still there. "I try to get through talking about Emily without crying, but it's hard...very hard," Mitchell says. Canine Hemangiosarcoma killed Emily's mother within two weeks of diagnosis. Mitchell says she was lucky that Emily lived two-and-a-half years after veterinarians realized she had the same, highly invasive cancer. "The night that she died, I called my...

TGen and VARI study cancer in dogs to find new treatments for humansFido's wet licks might hold more than love. They could provide the DNA keys to findings new treatments for rare cancers and other diseases in both dogs and human patients.The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) have created the Canine Hereditary Cancer Consortium, a program designed to study naturally occurring cancers in dogs to better understand why both pets and...