A vaccine against canine cancer has been in development for 10 years and it is finally ready for testing. Dr. Mark Mamula has been busy fighting cancer. Currently dogs with cancer are receiving two vaccinations and their disease is monitored using MRI, CAT scans, and ultrasound. Six months into the trial researchers are optimistic.
Dr. Mamula said, "We're seeing in many of these aggressive forms of cancer that they're not getting worse, they're not increasing in size. Of course, many humans with cancers know that if you can maintain the level of tumor size or reduce them, those are all good things for patients, human patients -- same thing in dogs."
Dr. Mamula isn’t just hoping to help dogs though, he’s hoping to begin human clinical trials in approximately 18 months. "The reason that this trial is very important to our proposed human trials is that canine cancers look, for all the world, very similar to human cancers. They progress and are aggressive much in identical ways that human cancers are," said Dr. Mamula.
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