author keywords: veterinary oncology; cross-species studies; cancer drug discovery; evolutionary biology

MeSH headings : Animals; Drug Discovery; Humans; Neoplasms / drug therapy; Neoplasms / veterinary

TL;DR: Clinical trials in veterinary patients with cancer provide an opportunity to evaluate a novel therapeutic in a setting that recapitulates many of the key features of human cancers, including key genomic aberrations that underly tumor development, response and resistance to treatment, and the presence of comorbidities that can affect outcomes. (via Semantic Scholar)