{"id":1285,"date":"2018-05-04T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:02:04","slug":"for-human-cancer-research-cats-tumors-are-less-useful-than-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/for-human-cancer-research-cats-tumors-are-less-useful-than-dogs.php","title":{"rendered":"For Human Cancer Research, cats&#8217; Tumors are less useful than dogs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> &#8211; It\u2019s nothing personal, cat people. But feline tumors aren\u2019t used nearly as often as those in dogs to study human cancer, Purdue University\u2019s Dr. Christopher Fulkerson says.<\/p>\n<p>Cats tend to have a type of skin cancer in their heads and mouths that some researchers are using as a model for human head and neck cancers. But dogs seem to be diagnosed more frequently with tumors that overlap with human cancer, Fulkerson explains. \u201cIt\u2019s been a little bit easier to find diseases that really match up,\u201d he says. Basically, scientists could put a cat\u2019s tumor in a mouse used for human cancer research, but why would drug companies focused on human cancer want them?<\/p>\n<p>Read Article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2018\/05\/04\/fur-what-its-worth-why-cats-tumors-arent-so-useful-human-cancer-research-902246.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2018\/05\/04\/fur-what-its-worth-why-cats-tumors-arent-so-useful-human-cancer-research-902246.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek &#8211; It\u2019s nothing personal, cat people. But feline tumors aren\u2019t used nearly as often as those in dogs to study human cancer, Purdue University\u2019s Dr. Christopher Fulkerson says. Cats tend to have a type of skin cancer in their heads and mouths that some researchers are using as a model for human head and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33222,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/33222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}