By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Fresh data on Life Science are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Fort Collins, Colorado, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) remain a therapeutic challenge for pediatric and adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients. Still today, surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy remain the mainstay of treatment.”
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Colorado State University, “Obstacles in developing new treatment approaches to improve the outcome are: few patients to enroll in clinical trials, and the diversity of tumor biology between histologic subtypes. Pet dogs may offer an additional strategy to discover and test new therapeutic avenues. The number of dogs diagnosed with a STS each year in the United States is estimated to be around 27,000 to 95,000. In comparison, approximately 900 children less than 20 years old and 1,500 AYAs between 15 and 29 years old are diagnosed with a STS each year in the United States. The mainstay for treatment of STSs in dogs is also surgery, with radiation therapy and chemotherapy when necessary. Similar to what is seen in humans, grade and stage are prognostic in dogs. In one comparative study of the histology and immunohistochemistry of canine STSs, most tumors were diagnosed as the human equivalent of undifferentiated sarcoma, spindle cell sarcoma, or unclassified spindle cell sarcoma. But much work remains to be done to fully assess the validity of canine STSs as a model. Gene expression analysis has been done in a limited number of canine STSs.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Tissue banking, development of cell lines, and the ability to mobilize large-scale clinical trials will become essential in veterinary medicine to benefit both dogs and humans.”
For more information on this research see: Canine Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Can Being a Dog’s Best Friend Help a Child? Frontiers In Oncology , 2017;7():285.
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting B. Seguin, Flint Animal Cancer Center, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2017.00285. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2017-12-30), Studies from Colorado State University Yield New Data on Life Science (Canine Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Can Being a Dog’s Best Friend Help a Child?), Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 1541, ISSN: 1532-4664, BUTTER® ID: 014889374
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