Dr. Charles Maitz, a veterinary radiation oncologist at the University of Missouri, has been doing research lately that focuses on thyroid cancer in dogs and how to best determine the dose of radiopharmaceutical drugs, essentially a radioactive treatment, needed to treat it.

I recently sat down with Dr. Maitz to discuss how research and clinical trials in dogs can help the dogs while also advancing human medicine.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Rebecca Smith: How common is thyroid cancer in dogs and, more generally, just cancer in dogs?

Dr. Charles Maitz: Caner in general is common. Unfortunately, in our pets, about half of pet dogs will develop cancer at some point in their life.

Thankfully, many of those are manageable – they get a lot of skin tumors that s

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