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standard wherever you get your podcasts. If you set aside the 40-hour work weeks and household chores, the lives of pet dogs are often remarkably similar to the lives of their people.

They live where we live, walk when we walk, chill when we chill, and if they're a very good boy or girl,

they might even get a nibble of whatever irresistible things we are snacking on.

All these lifestyle affinities make dogs excellent companions.

It also makes them susceptible to some of the same cancers that make humans sick.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

Because of their short average lifespans,

dogs develop cancer much sooner than humans exposed to similar living conditions.

And as my guest has learned,

that means dogs can alert us to carcinogens in the environment

and help us test new treatments that might benefit canine and human medicine alike.

Bob Holmes is a contributor to Noval magazine and author of the article how cancer research for dogs is helping improve treatments for pets and humans alike.

Bob, welcome to think.

Hello. Thanks for having me.

So lots of different animals can get cancer. Why do researchers think dogs are a particularly

good species to study to learn more about human cancers down the road?

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