What dogs and humans with cancer have in common

This post, sadly, is my last post on this series of information.  On my two earlier posts, I talked about our trip to the veterinarian, Dr. Dodd, and our talk with Miss Lisa Slama, a human cancer expert.  An interesting thing that dogs with cancer and humans with cancer is that they both can get lymphoma.  Something that they don't  have in common is that there isn't a particular age that a dog gets cancer. There isn't a particular age for humans either, but there is an hypothesis that when you get to certain stages in your life, you get cancer.  Something I find very interesting is that dogs get treated with chemo therapy too, not just humans (chemo therapy is a cancer treatment that makes all your hair fall out, for humans at least).But the interesting part is that in chemo therapy for dogs, they don't lose their hair because they have a different hair growth cycle than humans.  Also, some human cancer treatments have cured dogs with cancer, and some dog cancer treatments have cured humans with cancer.  The Legolettes think that dog cancer experts and human cancer experts need to get together and find a cure that will cure humans and dogs with cancer.

-Katie