{"id":2551,"date":"2018-10-12T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:25:06","slug":"dogs-are-helping-scientists-discover-better-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/dogs-are-helping-scientists-discover-better-cancer-treatments.php","title":{"rendered":"Dogs are helping scientists discover better cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2552\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/dogs-are-helping-scientists-discover-better-cancer-treatments\/849932017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2552 img-responsive img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doggy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"A dog undergoing treatment at the Purdue Veterinary Teaching Hospital - WSB-TV\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doggy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doggy-418x235.jpg 418w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doggy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog undergoing treatment at the Purdue Veterinary Teaching Hospital &#8211; WSB-TV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Can dogs help treat or even cure cancer in humans?<\/p>\n<p>A growing body of research shows man\u2019s best friend is speeding up the development of cancer-fighting drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say humans and dogs are about 95 percent identical genetically and cancer affects them in the same way it does us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cancer that dogs develop is much more similar to the human condition,\u201d said Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Deborah Knapp, Director of the Comparative Oncology Program at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and watch the story at WSB-TV:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/dogs-are-helping-scientists-discover-better-cancer-treatments\/849932017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dogs are helping scientists discover better cancer treatments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can dogs help treat or even cure cancer in humans? A growing body of research shows man\u2019s best friend is speeding up the development of cancer-fighting drugs. Scientists say humans and dogs are about 95 percent identical genetically and cancer affects them in the same way it does us. \u201cThe cancer that dogs develop is [&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-2551","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\/2551","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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31517,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/31517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}