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The tool forms part of a national tumour registry built by Liverpool’s Veterinary Data Science Group with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria using pathology records from veterinary diagnostic laboratories.
The registry aggregates more than one million tumour diagnoses across more than 200 breeds and 150 tumour types.
Users of the dashboard can select a tumour type and species and view how relative risk varies across demographic groups within the dataset.
Results are presented as odds ratios against a reference group.
The platform is publicly accessible and designed to allow vets, researchers and owners to explore patterns in the data.
Professor David Killick, veterinary oncologist at the University of Liverpool, said most veterinary cancer diagnosis data historically sits in private laboratories and is not easily accessible for research.
“It is important to understand risks for cancers — and this applies to pets too.
“But for dogs and cats, most cancer diagnosis data sit in private veterinary labs, inaccessible for research.
“Working through SAVSNET, our Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Network, we wanted to see whether we could bring together large volumes of these data into one meaningful, research-ready database.”
The dataset enables analysis of tumour risk across large numbers of breeds and cancers that have previously been difficult to study due to fragmented reporting.
An analysis of four major canine tumours using the registry has been published in the Veterinary and Comparative Oncology1.
The registry will continue to expand as additional laboratories contribute data.
The project is funded by the Petplan Charitable Trust.
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