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Just passing on this info that was was posted to another group in case anyone here was interested. There are some specific criteria that need to be met, so a lot of dogs may not qualify.

 

Cancer Vaccine for Dogs with Osteosarcoma

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Wonderful! Though it sounds like you need to be close to UPenn to participate.

 

Thanks for posting this!

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I'm glad they are doing this study and taking an interest in OS, but wow.

You would have to be fairly close to UPenn for all those followup visits. Personally if i had already had put my dog through amp and chemo AND they now had lung mets, I don't think i would want to loose any time with my pet for them to be hospitalized for observation, not to mention all the vet visits for followup testing.

I do hope they learn something of value though.

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I'm glad they are doing this study and taking an interest in OS, but wow.

You would have to be fairly close to UPenn for all those followup visits. Personally if i had already had put my dog through amp and chemo AND they now had lung mets, I don't think i would want to loose any time with my pet for them to be hospitalized for observation, not to mention all the vet visits for followup testing.

I do hope they learn something of value though.

I think you misread - it says there has to be NO evidence of lung mets. I don't think the number of visits is all that bad actually, the problem I had with most studies is you generally are not allowed to do any other treatments at the same time so no Palladia, no Artemisinin, etc. for the duration of the study. Of course you could always resume them once the study was completed.

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Interesting! I wonder how long it will take to complete the study. Thanks for posting. smile.gif

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I'm glad they are doing this study and taking an interest in OS, but wow.

You would have to be fairly close to UPenn for all those followup visits. Personally if i had already had put my dog through amp and chemo AND they now had lung mets, I don't think i would want to loose any time with my pet for them to be hospitalized for observation, not to mention all the vet visits for followup testing.

I do hope they learn something of value though.

I think you misread - it says there has to be NO evidence of lung mets. I don't think the number of visits is all that bad actually, the problem I had with most studies is you generally are not allowed to do any other treatments at the same time so no Palladia, no Artemisinin, etc. for the duration of the study. Of course you could always resume them once the study was completed.

 

Yep, and then what if your grey happens to be in the control group?? THey have to have a control group who's getting just saline or something...

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"All dogs will be vaccinated using a L. monocytogenes expressing huHer-2/neu recombinant vaccine, there is no placebo group."

 

 

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I'm glad they are doing this study and taking an interest in OS, but wow.

You would have to be fairly close to UPenn for all those followup visits. Personally if i had already had put my dog through amp and chemo AND they now had lung mets, I don't think i would want to loose any time with my pet for them to be hospitalized for observation, not to mention all the vet visits for followup testing.

I do hope they learn something of value though.

I think you misread - it says there has to be NO evidence of lung mets. I don't think the number of visits is all that bad actually, the problem I had with most studies is you generally are not allowed to do any other treatments at the same time so no Palladia, no Artemisinin, etc. for the duration of the study. Of course you could always resume them once the study was completed.

 

 

You're right, my mistake. Either way i am glad to see another group researching this cancer, any information is good information!

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