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Article: Collars for cancer research: about six million dogs in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year. Here's your opportunity to help find a cure.(Noteworthy)
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- Dog Watch
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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The statistics are sobering: Each year, according to the National Cancer Institute, approximately six million of the 65 million companion dogs in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer, and more than half of those over the age of 10 will die of the dreaded disease.
But now there is a new way to help collar canine cancer. Bright orange Pet4Pets[TM] charity collars--similar to the popular cancer awareness wrist bands, a la Lance Armstrong--were introduced last spring, with the funds going toward groundbreaking cancer research being funded by the Animal Cancer Foundation (ACF) in Norwalk, Connecticut. At least $2 from each ...