ABC TV San Francisco Features Canine Cancer Research Story: Saving Our Dogs, Helping Humans Beat Cancer - Work at Morris Animal Foundation, UC-Davis

ABC TV San Francisco Features Canine Cancer Research Story: Saving Our Dogs, Helping Humans Beat Cancer - Work at Morris Animal Foundation, UC-Davis

DENVER, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and treatments to save dogs from cancer and the benefits this research is having for human cancer patients was the subject of a news report that debuted on ABC TV San Francisco on September 18. The story, which was picked up by about 15 stations nationwide, detailed the innovative research and treatment success on canine cancer being conducted at the University of California-Davis and being funded and supported by the Morris Animal Foundation (MAF). The very same successful research and treatment to help dogs is also helping human cancer patients. View the TV news story on MAF's canine cancer Web site at http://www.curecaninecancer.org/in_the_news.html.

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Morris Animal Foundation has launched a global campaign to cure canine cancer. One in four dogs die of cancer; 60 percent of golden retrievers die of cancer. To learn more about canine cancer and to support MAF's efforts to save dogs from this terrible disease, go to http://www.curecaninecancer.org/.

Media Contact: To arrange interviews or for more information contact: Michael Burke, mburke@morrisanimalfoundation.org, (303) 708-3419.

About Morris Animal Foundation: Morris Animal Foundation, established in 1948, is dedicated to funding research that protects, treats and cures companion animals and wildlife. MAF has been at the forefront of funding breakthrough research studies benefiting animals in some 100 countries, spanning all seven continents on earth. MAF has its headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The Foundation has funded nearly 1,400 humane animal health studies with funds totaling more than $51 million. One hundred percent of annual, unrestricted contributions support animal health studies, not administration or the cost of fund raising. For more information, call (800) 243-2345, or visit http://www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/.

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CONTACT: Michael Burke of Morris Animal Foundation, +1-303-708-3419,
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http://www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/

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