Man's best friend helps man develop brain cancer treatments
The UMN's Canine Brain Tumor Clinical Trial Program offers cutting-edge treatment to pups, while also providing data to help people with brain tumors. The University of Minnesota's Canine Brain Tumor Clinical Trial Program offers cutting-edge treatment to dogs and provides data to help people with brain tumors. While dogs with low-grade gliomas can live out their lives without recurrence, many dogs can have a good quality of life due to the treatment. The trial's success was attributed to the medication itself not having any side effects, which significantly improved Dustin's quality life and provided hope for future treatments. The free KARE 11+ app includes live streams of KARE's newscasts, on-demand replays, on demand replays and exclusive programs like verify and HeartThreads.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Samie Solina in Health
The UMN's Canine Brain Tumor Clinical Trial Program offers cutting-edge treatment to pups, while also providing data to help people with brain tumors.
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Many times her team manages to give the dog longer. If dogs have low-grade gliomas, they can even live out the rest of their lives without tumor recurrence. While this treatment doesn't cure dogs of the tumor, in many cases, they can control this with a good quality of life.
“He wanted to contribute to the science,” she said. “Dustin's quality of life was really great during the time he was in the trial, for a couple of reasons. First, the medication itself didn't have any side effects for Dustin, which was incredible, because a lot of the alternative treatments like chemo or radiation would have certainly had side effects that would have worn on his quality of life. And then secondly, it provided a lot of hope that we wouldn't have really had otherwise.”
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