Pfizer received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on May 22, 2009 for Palladia, the first cancer treatment drug exclusively for dogs. Up until now veterinarians only had access to oncology drugs developed and approved for human use. Since these drugs were developed for human use they were being administered to dogs without any clinical trial or historical use information to gauge efficacy and tolerance. Palladia was developed to target cutaneous mast-cell tumors which account for approximately 20% of skin cancer cases in dogs. The drug is set to be released in early 2010. Specifics on the efficacy, pharmokinetics, etc., can be found in the new animal drug application posted under the FOIA on the FDA’s website here.
Veterinarian medicine while nowhere near advanced as human medicine has come a long way. As people become more willing to spend exorbant amounts of money on their pets you can bet there will be advances in veterinarian medicine to meet the demand. Call me crazy, but I do not think we are far from seeing certain types of transplants performed in dogs as well as it being common place for dogs to live well into their teens if not 20’s.
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