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Talking Pet Illnesses with CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight thirty six thirteen ten Wiva. This song makes me
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  Speaker 1: smile every time I hear it. You know why, because
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  Speaker 1: I know we're about to be talking with doctor Marty
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  Speaker 1: Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Great opportunity. By the way, we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking with the doctor for the past couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: You probably got to know doctor Greer. Love to have
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  Speaker 1: you join us if you've got a question for all
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  Speaker 1: you got to do is dial in six so eight
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  Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. That's six so eight three
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  Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. You can email as well as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we'll get to an email a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on the segment, but it's always great
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  Speaker 1: to have you on Aaron and hear your voice and
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  Speaker 1: get your question that way as well. Speaking of making
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  Speaker 1: contact with doctor Greer and everyone at check Out Veterinary,
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  Speaker 1: they are accepting new patients right now and they make
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  Speaker 1: it real easy to do. You can, of course head
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  Speaker 1: an over to check out vet dot com, schedule appointment
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  Speaker 1: there or big phone give a call six so eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. And joining us this morning is doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marty Greer, doctor how you doing this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing very well. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you. And UH, we've got
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  Speaker 1: some emails. We've got some other important things to get
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  Speaker 1: to as well. This is UH breast can for Awareness month,
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  Speaker 1: and people sometimes forget about their pets. We'll talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about that, and I will take an email
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  Speaker 1: as well in some calls. But real quick check out
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary such a cool concept, and this is something that
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  Speaker 1: I know other clinics across the country are now starting
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  Speaker 1: to call you and say, hey, doctor, we'd like to
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  Speaker 1: replicate what you are doing in Wisconsin. Sometimes we forget
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  Speaker 1: how lucky we are to have checkout vet. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the background and kind of the
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  Speaker 1: design idea and the concept that you put into put
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  Speaker 1: into play there in sun Prairie at the clinic.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Basically we wanted to do a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: One was to really simplify veterinary care, make it more accessible,
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  Speaker 2: make it more affordable, just just make it easier for
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  Speaker 2: people to get in and get out and get things
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  Speaker 2: taken care of. The thing is that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people get busy in their lives. They have kids, and
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  Speaker 2: they have soccer and they have grandparents, and they have
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  Speaker 2: all these things going on in their lives, and it
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  Speaker 2: makes it really hard for them to fit in Monday
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  Speaker 2: through Friday schedule into their life, or something happens on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend and you really can't wait. So we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make accessibility really important. But it was also important
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  Speaker 2: to me that we made it really comfortable for the
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  Speaker 2: pets and their interactions with other pets there and with us.
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  Speaker 2: So essentially there is no interaction for the other dogs
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  Speaker 2: or cats. So if you come in, you are in
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  Speaker 2: an isolated garage bay. It is your own exam room.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else is in there except for the staff and you,
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  Speaker 2: so it makes it really comfortable. There's no Rottweller staring
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  Speaker 2: down your cat, or there's no you know, enthusiastic golden
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  Speaker 2: retriger puppy leaping around in front of you. So you
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  Speaker 2: know they all mean well, but yeah, it doesn't always
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  Speaker 2: work out that way. So it's just a really comfortable
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  Speaker 2: place for them to be.
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  Speaker 1: It is. It's an amazing it's an amazing clinic. I
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  Speaker 1: hope folks get a chance. I know you love having
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  Speaker 1: visitors as well. Stop on in. Of course, we're right
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  Speaker 1: at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive in Sun Prairie.
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  Speaker 1: Super convenient right off the highway. That's part of it
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  Speaker 1: as well. If you can hear our voices this morning
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  Speaker 1: you are near checkout vet again. All the details online
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Great opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: They are accepting new patients right now, so it's a
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  Speaker 1: great opening for you. I telephone number six so eight
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  Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred is Doctor Greer also
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the hours and the days of the week at
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet. Not going to beat this seven days a week,
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  Speaker 1: nine am until five pm. That first visit that exam
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  Speaker 1: it is free as well. All the details and make
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  Speaker 1: an employment right online at checkout vet dot com. That's
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. And doctor is Breast cancer Awareness
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  Speaker 1: week or month. And I know when we think of that,
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  Speaker 1: we often think about think about humans, but pets they
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  Speaker 1: are not immune either, are they They're not, And I think.
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  Speaker 2: It's important that we educate people about what that is.
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  Speaker 2: But that means what it looks like, how to diagnose it,
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  Speaker 2: and what we can do about treatment, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing going forward our veterinary clinics in Veternor
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  Speaker 2: Village in Lamira, and the two in some Prairie check
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  Speaker 2: In and check Out and Marshall PetCare have all started
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  Speaker 2: a fund that is called Excellence in Companion Animal Mammary
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  Speaker 2: Cancer Research and it is funded through the University of
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Veterinary Schools program for this kind of advance. They
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of research that's going on looking for
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  Speaker 2: different diseases for shoot disease and cancer and all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things. But to me, this is really near and
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  Speaker 2: dear to my heart. So we decided a few years
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  Speaker 2: ago to do this. We had a logo developed that
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  Speaker 2: we've trademarked called pink Pot. It was actually developed by
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  Speaker 2: a woman who has passed away from breast cancer who
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  Speaker 2: was a friend of ours. And now we have this
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  Speaker 2: fund that we've just started this year. Today on Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: there's information about where you can buy cookies. Today on
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  Speaker 2: Facebook there's information about other things that you can buy.
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  Speaker 2: We have a beautiful necklace with the logo on it.
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  Speaker 2: But most importantly, even without any kind of a purchase,
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  Speaker 2: you can make a donation. You can go to Revival
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  Speaker 2: Animal Health to their catalog website and they've got a
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  Speaker 2: place you can click on and make a five dollars donation.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a lot, but it can
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  Speaker 2: be five hundred dollars if you lost a pets to
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  Speaker 2: breast cancer and you want to see something changed, because
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  Speaker 2: really we haven't had any research in breast cancer since
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties in pets, and essentially all we know
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  Speaker 2: is if you say before they're too you have a
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  Speaker 2: reduced risk of cancer in memory cancer. But we don't
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  Speaker 2: have any kind of diagnostics or any kind of treatment
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  Speaker 2: other than surgery. So essentially, if you find a lump
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  Speaker 2: on your dog or cat, you need to go in.
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  Speaker 2: You need to have it taken care of. Don't watch it,
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  Speaker 2: don't wait for it to get bigger, just go.
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  Speaker 1: In with that too, doctor. And I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: we've mentioned enough. Obviously you guys are on social media
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  Speaker 1: as well. Check out veterinary folks can find that with
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  Speaker 1: cancers in pets. And you said something there that that
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  Speaker 1: I hope people queued in on, which is you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to wait on these on these type of things.
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  Speaker 1: Is a doctor wants tell me that if you live
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  Speaker 1: long enough, we're all eventually going to develop some type
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  Speaker 1: of cancer. And I've got to guess human world pet
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  Speaker 1: world is probably very similar. What are some of the
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  Speaker 1: other signs too, I think obviously, you know there are
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  Speaker 1: those those lumps and other things that can be observed.
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  Speaker 1: Are there other things that that pet owners should be
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  Speaker 1: keeping an eye out for when it comes to cancers,
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  Speaker 1: different types of cancers for their in their pets.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, breast cancer is always going to be a lump
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  Speaker 2: along the memory chain, it's almost always females don't. But
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  Speaker 2: other kinds of cancer, they can just be really vague,
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  Speaker 2: insidious symptoms that she's not eating very well, or he
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  Speaker 2: didn't get up as fast as he did before, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe she's just getting older and maybe she's
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  Speaker 2: just not feeling well today. If you're noticing something, it
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  Speaker 2: could be cancer and the spleen, which will cause some bleeding,
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  Speaker 2: and those pets will very suddenly become ill. But it
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  Speaker 2: may be really vague signs because you don't see any
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  Speaker 2: evidence of bleeding on the outside of the pet. It
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  Speaker 2: may be that they develop a cough, it may be
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  Speaker 2: a lump somewhere, maybe something else on the skin that's
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  Speaker 2: not related to the memory chain. It can be limping,
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  Speaker 2: So anything that just doesn't seem right, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: pets that's seven and up. What we start to see
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  Speaker 2: cancers at age seven And a lot of the breeds
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  Speaker 2: like Golden Retrievers and flat coat of Retrievers, boxers, Bernice's
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  Speaker 2: Mountain dogs, those breeds are at higher risk of developing cancer.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have like I have clients with, if
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  Speaker 2: they have a seven year old golden and they look
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  Speaker 2: at them CROSSI they're coming in because they just want
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  Speaker 2: to be sure that something isn't going on, so they
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  Speaker 2: run in. We do some diagnostics. There's some blood tests
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  Speaker 2: now that we can do called liquid biopsies that we
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  Speaker 2: can do to try and detect things early. We can
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  Speaker 2: do X rays, we can do ultrasounds. We have some
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  Speaker 2: good diagnostic tools.
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  Speaker 1: Are there certain breeds of dogs that are more susceptible
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  Speaker 1: to breast cancer?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, actually there are. And there was a study published
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twelve by the Internet. It was published at
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  Speaker 2: the International Symposium for Canine and Feline Reproduction. And if
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  Speaker 2: somebody's interested in seeing that article and they can't find
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  Speaker 2: it on Google Scholar, I'm happy to send it to them.
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  Speaker 2: If they just email us at the clinic, I'll send
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  Speaker 2: it to them, but they did do it a pretty
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  Speaker 2: interesting study, and so, yes, there are predisposing breeds, but
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  Speaker 2: oftentimes it's more related to the age of things. So
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  Speaker 2: if your dog was spaded under age too, she's probably
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  Speaker 2: not going to develop cancer. If she was used in
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  Speaker 2: a breeding program, you may have gotten her through a
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  Speaker 2: rescue and she was a retired breeder. You may have
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  Speaker 2: gotten her from a breeder, You may have bet her yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you may have just decided I don't really want to
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  Speaker 2: say young dogs, And there's a lot of justification from that.
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  Speaker 2: More recently, we've seen articles about the benefits of not spaying,
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  Speaker 2: but we also know the risks of not saying so
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  Speaker 2: we have to kind of balance that. And so if
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  Speaker 2: she had a mother or a grandmother that had breast cancer,
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  Speaker 2: she's more likely to have it, just like in our people.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely a correlation with that. So I think it's
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  Speaker 2: really important that people are in tune with it. I
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  Speaker 2: usually talk to people so during Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
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  Speaker 2: if you come into one of our practices, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to teach you how to feel your dog's memory chain
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  Speaker 2: to find if there's any early signs of cancer. We
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  Speaker 2: don't do mammograms on dogs or cats. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to do it all on feel and my staff, my assistance,
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  Speaker 2: my technicians and my doctors will teach you how to
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  Speaker 2: feel along the memory chain. And if anytime six within
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  Speaker 2: the six months period of time after your appointment in
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  Speaker 2: October with one of our practice you notice a lump
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  Speaker 2: and you're concerned, you just give us a call. Come in.
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  Speaker 2: One of the technicians will go over the dog. If
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  Speaker 2: she feels like there's something going on, then we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have you see a doctor and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: appropriately schedule surgery if that's what our next best step
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  Speaker 2: should be. And waiting until the lump gets bigger is
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  Speaker 2: just dangerous because the bigger the lump, the more likely
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  Speaker 2: it is to be cancerous and to have spread. So
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  Speaker 2: early detection is really important, just like it is in people.
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  Speaker 2: But since we don't have mammograms, we have to count
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  Speaker 2: on our fingers. Also rely on your groomers. The groomers
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  Speaker 2: are putting their hands on your dogs every six to
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  Speaker 2: eight weeks to get them all trimmed up and beautiful
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  Speaker 2: and babe, and they will oftentimes find lumps that owners
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  Speaker 2: have not, So I think griomors are magical people that
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  Speaker 2: we really rely on heavily in the veterinary field to
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  Speaker 2: pick up on certain changes. They may notice something row
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  Speaker 2: at the ear, or they may just notice something with
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  Speaker 2: their teeth, but they're most certainly going to notice lumps
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  Speaker 2: and those are the things that you want to be
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to. So very important that you rely on
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  Speaker 2: your veterinary staff and your groomer or your pet's health.
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  Speaker 2: Don't just wing it and google it. Be sure that
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  Speaker 2: you you are getting in for those real exams that
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  Speaker 2: we can put our hands on your pet.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Mardy Greer of check Out
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got a question for the doctor, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a phone line open for you right now at six
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  Speaker 1: eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight three
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  Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. You can learn more about Checkout
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary on their website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. They are currently accepting new patients at
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet again. You can make the appointment right online
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  Speaker 1: or give the call six oh eight three one eight
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. That's six so eight three one eight
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. Doctor, you're talking about other some breeds
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  Speaker 1: that may be more susceptible, and you had mentioned something
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  Speaker 1: in there that that I sometimes forget that there are
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  Speaker 1: some of the great benefits of For example, if if
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  Speaker 1: you are going the pure bread route, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know the lineage of that dog. Is that stuff contained,
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  Speaker 1: Like I know, for folks that are at show dogs
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  Speaker 1: and other things, that's very very important record keeping is
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  Speaker 1: that stuff? Is that stuff contained there as well? Is
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  Speaker 1: that is that something that that folks could either ask
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  Speaker 1: their breeder or have that information available of certain types
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  Speaker 1: of cancer, whether it's breast cancer, others that that may
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  Speaker 1: run in that particular in that particular you know.
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  Speaker 2: Line of pets, right and it certainly does. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have any DNA tests for cancer, so we
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  Speaker 2: really have to rely on the people that knew those dogs, parents, grandparents,
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  Speaker 2: great grandparents and so on. We know in the veterinary
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  Speaker 2: field there's a lot of work actively going on finding
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  Speaker 2: DNA tests for different diseases. We currently have three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty some tests that we can do a cheek
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  Speaker 2: swab and determine if your dog has any DNA. That's
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  Speaker 2: going to predispose them to some of those diseases, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't have any for cancer at this point. Now,
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  Speaker 2: really cool University of Wisconsin doctor Muir in the Orthopedics
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  Speaker 2: department has developed a DNA test for cruciate disease Torn
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  Speaker 2: cruciates ACLS, and it's the first. It's really a breakthrough
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  Speaker 2: because it's the first complex DNA tests that we have
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  Speaker 2: for dogs and cats. Previous to this, it's all been
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  Speaker 2: simple autosomal recessive or simple autosomal dominant. But he now
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  Speaker 2: has this one that will pick up on multiple DNA
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  Speaker 2: factors all in one test. So that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a major breakthrough when we're looking for some of these additional,
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  Speaker 2: more advanced diagnostics. Yes, there is a blood test that
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  Speaker 2: we can do to look for lymphoma. Yes they're blood
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  Speaker 2: tests for certain things. They're called liquid biopsies, but they're
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  Speaker 2: still in their infancy in veterinary medicine, and we don't
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  Speaker 2: have a DNA test specific to cancer, but we will sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say probably in the next ten years,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see some really significant breakthroughs, especially with
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  Speaker 2: what doctor Miir has been able to do. So if
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  Speaker 2: you have a Laborador, you can actually have a DNA
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  Speaker 2: test to determine if they're predispositarian Crucia. It's very interesting
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  Speaker 2: information and brand new, just really cool that Wisconsin is
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  Speaker 2: on the forefront of that, which is why I wanted
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  Speaker 2: the University of Wisconsin to be the group that does
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  Speaker 2: our research for our breast cancer. Not only we're attached
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  Speaker 2: to Wisconsin, but they have a great veterinary school and
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  Speaker 2: they have these really advanced techniques and doctors that we
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  Speaker 2: really felt like supporting that would be helpful. So, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, you can make a donation to that really easily.
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  Speaker 2: There's all kinds of stuff on Facebook this week. There's
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things floating around out there, so please
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  Speaker 2: take a minute and take a look. Just you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have giving Tuesday, we have all these things going on,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, just think about what pets have touched
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  Speaker 2: your lives and how important they are to you, and
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  Speaker 2: whether you would like to help support some of that,
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  Speaker 2: because I think it's really important. And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you have any questions about it, you give us
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  Speaker 2: a call, you come in. We're happy to look at
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  Speaker 2: your pet. It's free if you want to come in
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  Speaker 2: and just have your little girl checked over and see
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  Speaker 2: if she's got anything going on that you're concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: Female dog or female cat. And we just don't see
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  Speaker 2: it much in mail. So I don't want to sound discriminatory,
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  Speaker 2: but we just don't see breast cancer and mails. It's
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  Speaker 2: really important if you find something that you're concerned about,
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  Speaker 2: you just call up, make an appointment, come on in
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to give you the guidance of what should.
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  Speaker 1: You do as your next What a great opportunity for folks.
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  Speaker 1: And again as we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer,
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  Speaker 1: check out VETT. If you can hear our voice you
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  Speaker 1: learn more about the about breast cancer Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
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  Speaker 1: That's check out vet dot com. I was gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: Are things like chemo and radiation? Are those are those
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  Speaker 1: type of things available to pets or is that something
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  Speaker 1: that we we generally don't have available for for companion animals.
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  Speaker 2: Well, certain kinds of cancer, Yes, we absolutely do. We
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  Speaker 2: have some that are old school that are combination therapies
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  Speaker 2: that are very similar to the drugs given to people.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a chop protocol that's done for lymphoma that
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  Speaker 2: was developed at the University of Wisconsin WESH probably thirty
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and it's still the gold standard for treating lymphoma.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't have cures for lymphoma. We do have
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  Speaker 2: other drugs. We have palladia, we have levardia, so we
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  Speaker 2: do have drugs that are specifically targeted for dogs and
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  Speaker 2: cats that are not human drugs. But many times these
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  Speaker 2: research projects that they're doing at certain places like the
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  Speaker 2: Veterinary School have benefited human cancer and human cancer has
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  Speaker 2: benefited us. So there's definitely a lot of back and
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  Speaker 2: forth on that, and I want people to barely be
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  Speaker 2: aware that the research that's done for things like kids
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  Speaker 2: with osteosarcoma. They actually are very similar to dogs with
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  Speaker 2: ostia sarcoma. So there have been some very significant breakthroughs
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  Speaker 2: with using animal models for research and vice versa. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we do have some chemotherapy. Yeah, we do have chemo.
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  Speaker 2: We do have radiation. They do it at the Vet School. Now, radiation,
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  Speaker 2: of course is different in because and cats because we
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  Speaker 2: have to put them under anesthesia for those procedures. You
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  Speaker 2: can't expect them to just lay on the table and
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  Speaker 2: have those things happen. So it's a much bigger deal
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  Speaker 2: because they have to be anesthetized every time that it's done,
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  Speaker 2: and that may be five days a week for four weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so that may be twenty anesthetic periods in thirty days,
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  Speaker 2: and that's pretty tough. So we really need some breakthroughs.
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  Speaker 2: We really need some things that we can do for
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  Speaker 2: our pets that currently aren't available. There's definitely breakthroughs coming,
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  Speaker 2: but without the research funding, without the support, and without
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  Speaker 2: people going to the veterinary clinic, and the d School
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  Speaker 2: always has research projects going on. They send out a
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  Speaker 2: monthly email to the veterinary clinics. You can look it
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  Speaker 2: up online. And find out if the type of cancer
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  Speaker 2: your dog has is going to be related to something
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  Speaker 2: that's going on as a research project. And I actually
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  Speaker 2: got a client that was in this week who works
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  Speaker 2: for a company called VMD, and they're working on putting
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  Speaker 2: together a program that allows people to really cross reference
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  Speaker 2: all those programs, because right now you would have to
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  Speaker 2: google it, and you would have to go to every
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  Speaker 2: veterinary school's website or every institution that does chemo there.
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  Speaker 2: And there are oncologists that are not at the veterinary
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  Speaker 2: school in Wisconsin. We have some in the Madison area,
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  Speaker 2: So you just look up veterinary oncologists and you can
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  Speaker 2: go in and see one. So if you are diagnosed,
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  Speaker 2: your pet is diagnosed with something and you want to
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  Speaker 2: go beyond what your regular veterinary can do, by all
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  Speaker 2: means make that happen. You know, go in, do the reading,
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  Speaker 2: figure out where you can go, talk to your veterinary
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  Speaker 2: and see what your choices are. And we have clients
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  Speaker 2: that will travel great distances, you know, to other states
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  Speaker 2: because there's a research project going on there or some
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  Speaker 2: other kind of treatment that we don't have in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: So don't allow the limitations of I live in Madison
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  Speaker 2: to be the only option that you have because you
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  Speaker 2: can go to places if that's something that you want
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  Speaker 2: to do, and then you can work with a local
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  Speaker 2: oncologist at the veterinary school or in practice to try
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  Speaker 2: and get some care for your pets. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to decide what's important to you and what's
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  Speaker 2: right for you and your pets, what the side effects are,
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  Speaker 2: what the treatment looks like, and what is really best
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