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The VMDB data base started in 1964 as an initiative of the National Cancer Institute for the purpose of studying cancer in animals. The National Cancer Institute began collecting a standardized abstract of every case that passed through the Veterinary Teaching Hospitals at the Schools of Veterinary Sciences in North America. Since then, 26 universities have submitted more than 7 million records to this data base. Of course, these hospital records are a compendium of all the cases that the universities see, not just the cancer cases. This makes VMDB a valuable resource for researching animal diseases and effectiveness of treatments. VMDB routinely provides more than thirty summary breakdowns for retreived data . Typical summaries include breed, age, sex, geographical region and date of disease onset.

Searches for non-associated institutions start at $150 per search and increase according to their complexity. Search requests may be made via e-mail, FAX, phone or by completing the on-line request form. Please allow 4 weeks for the results of your search to be emailed to you.

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