By the time you finish reading this sentence, another dog will have been diagnosed with cancer. It happens about every five seconds in this country, affecting roughly 6-million dogs each year.*

While the news is understandably troubling for the owners of those dogs, there is hope. Canine cancer research is a growing specialty and doctors are beginning to realize just how much humans can benefit from it, too.

At Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center, veterinarians and cancer researches are working together to develop medicines and therapies to help both dogs and humans. The idea is to enroll dogs in studies to treat them with cutting-edge therapies, then for doctors to apply what they learn in those studies to human research.

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