New research at the University of Guelph offers renewed hope for both human and animal patients fighting osteosarcoma. This aggressive bone cancer has seen little progress in survival rates over the past few decades.
A multidisciplinary team at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) is researching naturally occurring bone cancer in pet dogs to develop earlier, more precise ways to predict how the disease will spread. This work could directly guide future diagnostics and treatment choices for humans.
The research group, known as the Dog Osteosarcoma Group – Biomarkers of Neoplasia (DOGBONe), brings together experts in veterinary medicine, biomedical sciences and engineering to focus on blood-based biomarkers that could signal metastasis earlier than current imaging methods.
