Sentences with phrase «cancer than intact dogs»

A study utilizing the Veterinary Medical Database of over 40,000 dogs found that neutered males and females were more likely to die of cancer than intact dogs, especially of OSA, LSA and MCT [15].

Both studies found that neutered male dogs have a four times higher risk of prostate cancer than intact dogs.

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For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one year of age, there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs of the same breed.

A study on Golden Retrievers found that male dogs who were neutered before 12 months of age had double the risk of hip dysplasia than their intact counterparts (Torres de la Riva G, Hart BL, Farver TB, Oberbauer AM, Messam LLM, et al. (2013) Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievdogs who were neutered before 12 months of age had double the risk of hip dysplasia than their intact counterparts (Torres de la Riva G, Hart BL, Farver TB, Oberbauer AM, Messam LLM, et al. (2013) Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden RetrievDogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers)

For cancers other than those three, the incidence of cancers included in the study were higher for neutered than intact dogs.

A retrospective study of cardiac tumors in dogs showed that there was a 5 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma, one of the three most common cancers in dogs, in spayed bitches than intact bitches and a 2.4 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma in neutered dogs as compared to intact males.

On average, castrated dogs are three times more likely than their intact counterparts to develop some type of prostate cancer.

Gonadectomized female and male dogs lived longer than sexually intact dogs in this cohort (Table 1) ⇓ and in a previous study (32), which might be expected to contribute to a higher overall cancer incidence associated with gonadectomy.