Which dog breeds have higher risk of getting cancer?
Which dog breeds have higher risk of getting cancer? A West Highland white terrier also known as Westie. — Unsplash In contrast to popular belief, large dogs do not necessarily have a higher risk of cancer because a recent study published in Royal Society Open Science revealed that large dogs, but not the largest ones, are more likely to develop the disease. The lead author of the research, Leonard Nunney, a biologist at the University of California, Riverside, aimed to understand the start and inception of cancer in dog breeds . Nunney stated that although humans have an increased risk of cancer as their bodies mature, dog breeds are exempt from this theory. "You have things that range in size from a chihuahua up to a mastiff or a Great Dane," he told ABC News . "So there's a huge range of size." atOptions = { 'key' : '02c59cfff36ffaaede6cb2ef1519e960', 'format' : 'iframe', 'height' : 50, 'width' ...