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| Na'ilah's new life: rescued and cured of CTVT |
It's on the BBC News, the National Geographic News, the Huffington Post, YouTube, etc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/worlds-oldest-cancer-dog_n_4658226.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Dr. Jones's office is where Na'ilah was diagnosed with Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor last August when I took her in to be spayed.
It's been quite a journey since then--an expensive one--but Na'ilah is fully recovered today.
Her cancer is apparently the oldest living cancer cell. It has nearly two million mutations, giving it an age of about 9,000 BCE.
It's one of two cancer cells in the world known to jump from one living being to another.
Read about it on one of many websites or listen on YouTube.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140123141742.htm
How awful to rescue a dog only to discover that she is sick.
But there are now two bright spots in Na'ilah's story, aside from being rescued:
* Her cancer has been cured.
* It turned out to be an interesting illness with an ancient genome now being studied as part of the effort to cure cancer.
The research done at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Great Britain was published in the journal Science and released on January 23 by ScienceDaily:
E.P. Murchison et alia. "Transmissible Dog Cancer Genome Reveals the Origin and History of an Ancient Cell Lineage." Science, 2014; 343 (6169); 437 DOI: 10.1126/science. 1247167
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