Dr. Ruthanne Chun(19), veterinary oncologist and assistant professor of clinical sciences at Kansas State University, she said about the similarities between animals and humans with the disease can help in finding a cure.
Chun said that " If animals are developing cancers from something from the environment we can learn how to more effectively use animals as sentinels, and what it might be in the environment that's causing the cancer,Animals also get many similar tumor types as people, and for some tumor types, animals get them more frequently and the natural course of the tumor is much faster than it is in people.