Inauguration and Opening Ceremony Held for NTU Animal Cancer Research Center and Animal Cancer Treatment Center—The First of Its Kind in Asia

With the upgrading of people’s knowledge and living standards, the number of pets (like dogs and cats) raised by Taiwanese nationals also keeps increasing. And, with the raising of standards for animal care and treatment, the longevity of animals is also greatly extended. Therefore, as in the case of human beings, cancer has become the number 1 cause of death for cats and dogs. In order to improve the quality of medical care for animal cancer, the College of Agriculture and Bio-Resources of NTU started to plan the improvement of the clinical equipments of its affiliated hospitals several years ago, while at the same time promoting the research of tumor-causing mechanism and the development of treatments for animal cancer.
As pet dogs and cats are formed by genes more akin to human beings than small mice, and are exposed to the same risk factors in the living environment like human beings, the type of tumors that occurred naturally to cats and dogs are similar in their causes and in their symptoms to those that happened to human beings. Therefore, the study of animal tumors provides a most appropriate animal model for the study of human cancer. .....>> Full Text