Dogs share our homes, our habits and sometimes, our diseases. Gastric cancer is rare in dogs, but when it does strike, it closely resembles gastric cancer in humans: subtle clinical signs, comparable tumor subtypes, late-stage diagnosis and poor outcomes. That similarity, combined with unique genetics, makes purebred dogs a powerful model for studying this devastating disease, which is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
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