A medical center to help all animals and a lot of dogs!!!
The Animal Medical Center!!!
I had done an entry on canines and cancer a while back. I wanted to followup that entry with information about a vaccine developed by researchers at both Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Animal Medical Center of New York City. This vaccine has shown tremendous progress and results in treating canine melanoma, a common yet deadly form of cancer in dogs. The more I read about the treatment, the more information there seemed to be about the Animal Medical Center, so I decided to look at this facility a bit closer.
The Animal Medical Center in New York City is a nonprofit veterinary center that has been a national leader in animal care since 1910. As an academic veterinary hospital, The AMC promotes the health and well-being of companion animals through advanced treatment, research and education. The staff of this facility has over 90 veterinarians and and is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Center is a teaching hospital and utilizes this opportunity to train veterinarian leaders of the future. The Center works closely with many other hospitals in their research for treatments that could work both on animals and humans.
In fact, the vaccine for melanoma that is now being used in dogs with a very good success rate could someday be used to treat humans with the same condition. When originally tested, about 40% of the dogs showed a positive outcomes as a result of the vaccine. About 12.5% of the dogs had their cancerous tumors disappear totally!!!
On one of the main pages on the website for the Animal Medical Center, they are strong in saying the following about their work and research, “The Animal Medical Center does not induce disease for research and does not maintain any laboratory animals for research.”
It is clear to see that this is a facility that truly cares about the animals that are treated there and the health and well being of all animals!!! Job well done!!!
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