Ryan's District Boards

RD Today => All the News => LifeStyle => Topic started by: riky on July 25, 2013, 09:00:27 AM

Title: Pet pig Nemo's lymphoma treatment makes research history
Post by: riky on July 25, 2013, 09:00:27 AM
Pet pig Nemo's lymphoma treatment makes research history

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pet-pig-nemos-lymphoma-treatment-makes-research-history-182857612.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/19svCrL6JgtsaVkcRosIwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-24T211258Z_1_CBRE96N1MXP00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTH-PIG.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="CUHA handout photo shows Nemo, a 730-pound (331-kg) Hampshire pig, at the university hospital for animals" align="left" title="CUHA handout photo shows Nemo, a 730-pound (331-kg) Hampshire pig, at the university hospital for animals" border="0" /></a>By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When George Goldner went to feed his six pet pigs earlier this year, his 730-pound (331-kg) companion Nemo was acting strangely. Nemo had suddenly stopped eating and laid in the mud. So Goldner loaded Nemo into a trailer and drove more than two hours to Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA) in Ithaca, New York. There he learned his four-year-old Hampshire pig had what doctors believed was the blood cancer B-cell lymphoma. The hospital's researchers told Goldner they had never seen a pig treated for cancer. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

Source: Pet pig Nemo's lymphoma treatment makes research history (http://news.yahoo.com/pet-pig-nemos-lymphoma-treatment-makes-research-history-182857612.html)