Sentences with phrase «cancers than pets»

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How can businesses offer employees discounted access to services, i.e., rather than pay for a set kind of insurance, can they offer a menu of different options for employees, such as pet insurance, a specific kind of medical insurance (like cancer insurance) or any other possibilities?

Dogs fed on a diet of dry commercial pet food fed yellow - orange vegetables at least three times a week were 70 % less likely to develop cancer than dogs that weren't (2005 Purdue University)

FDG - PET, a method that the University of Pennsylvania helped pioneer, has been used for more than two decades to detect tumors and determine the extent to which cancer has spread.

Despite the 1996 call by The Lancet's editor to fund Duesberg's research on AIDS, and despite Scientific American's plea more than a decade later that the scientific community consider his theories on cancer, Peter Duesberg is still fighting daunting scientific battles.

«Ever since life became multicellular, which could be more than 2 billion years ago, it had to deal with preventing or fighting cancer,» Peter said.

«The fact that we found greater cost savings for cancer patients with more comorbidities than for those with fewer comorbidities raises the question of whether similar results would be observed in patients with other serious illnesses and multimorbidity,» said Professor Peter May of Trinity College Dublin and a former visiting research fellow in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study.

In a meeting sponsored by the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies» Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Fan and 15 other experts in the field described the benefits of using pet dogs with naturally occurring (rather than laboratory - induced) tumors in early cancer drug tCancer Policy Forum of the National Academies» Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Fan and 15 other experts in the field described the benefits of using pet dogs with naturally occurring (rather than laboratory - induced) tumors in early cancer drug tcancer drug trials.

The chosen tracer has a short half - life, so the exposure to radiation is no greater than what is now used in the many PET scans used to detect cancer.

Not all cancers show up on FDG PET scans, and that could be because some use glutamine metabolism rather than glycolysis.

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Dogs often get cancer at about the same rate as humans, accounting for nearly half of animal deaths, especially among pets older than 10 years of age.

Spaying a female pet early is less controversial than neutering but by preventing the first heat, it nearly eliminates the risk of breast cancer.

Spaying your pet before going into its first heat cycle will remove all chance of ovarian cancer and greatly decrease (greater than 99 %) the chance of breast cancer.

NRDC conducted tests that found two chemicals in the pet collars left residue sufficient to pose the risk of cancer and neurological damage to children — as much as 1,000 times higher than levels established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Even if it is not possible to completely «cure» a pet's cancer, it may be possible for an animal to live with its condition with an excellent quality of life, often forbmonths or even years longer than was thought possible.

With recent advances in veterinary oncology for cats and dogs, pets and their human families have more options than ever - and greater hope - when it comes to treating cancer.

Violet Gaines has been on that cancer journey more than once with her beloved pets, so she has a good idea of what's in store.

Cancer with pets is almost exactly like with people: some types are much more aggressive than others.

However, most cancer specialists or oncologists who work on pets have different goals than those who work on people.

Due to the compressed lifespan of dogs and cats, cancer treatments like chemotherapy are administered in lower doses, so pets tend to handle these treatments better than people do, which allows them to bypass the illness and side effects humans typically encounter.

However, refusing to eat is also a sign of certain ailments, from bowel obstructions to cancer, so if your pet skips more than one meal, it's time to check in with a vet.

Treatment of cancer in pets is less aggressive than the same treatment performed in humans.

Right now, it's Pet Cancer Awareness Month and so what better way to spread awareness than by sharing some of Dr. Patrick Mahaney's tips for preventing cancer in yourCancer Awareness Month and so what better way to spread awareness than by sharing some of Dr. Patrick Mahaney's tips for preventing cancer in yourcancer in your pet??

In more than 30 years of pet ownership, I've nursed a lot of animals: a diabetic cat, a greyhound with bone cancer, an old cat with kidney disease, dogs with congestive heart failure, a puppy with a scratched cornea and more.

From my writing partner, Kim Campbell Thornton, in this week's Pet Connection: In more than 30 years of pet ownership, I've nursed a lot of animals: a diabetic cat, a greyhound with bone cancer, an old cat with kidney disease, dogs with congestive heart failure, a puppy with a scratched cornea and more.

A pet with cancer needs slightly higher concentrations of protein than the levels needed for adult maintenance.

In fact, one of the biggest hurdles to treating pets with cancer is that many owners imagine their pet's treatment will be more difficult than it really is.

As SRS begins to emerge in veterinary cancer care, early reports indicate good outcomes and fewer side effects than traditional radiation therapy, and pet owners appreciate the significant reduction in daily visits to three or fewer.

The cost of your pet's spay / neuter surgery is a lot less than the cost of having and caring for a litter, treating cancers and other medical conditions that spaying / neutering can eliminate or significantly reduce the risks of occurring, and treating injuries caused by fights.

This year's goal is to provide more than $ 2 million in additional grants to support pet cancer treatment and research initiatives.

More potent than BHA and has been linked to certain cancers in both humans and pets.

The impetus for this widespread practice is presumably pet population control, and the belief that mammary gland and prostate cancers are prevented and aggressive male behavior is markedly less likely than in those neutered later.

«The thought of losing another pet to cancer was more than I could bear.

There is nothing more difficult for pet owners than receiving a cancer diagnosis for your companion.

Even though your pet has been neutered, we DO SEE MUCH HIGHER incidence of prostate cancer in NEUTERED male dogs than nonneutered dogs.