Companion animals as sentinels for predicting environmental exposure effects on aging and cancer susceptibility in humans : proceedings of a workshop / Ruth Cooper, Carol Berkower, and Sharyl Nass, rapporteurs ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, Division on Earth and Life Studies

Given the lifelong immersion of companion animals in the natural human environment, data collected on their exposures and health outcomes have the potential to provide new insights into environmentally induced disease that complement traditional laboratory, clinical, and public health studies. Furthermore, because companion animals experience a similar spectrum of disease as humans, with earlier onset, they could serve as sentinels for environmental risks to human health. To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop in collaboration with the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence and the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions to explore this promising and underutilized pathway for research. Presentations and panel discussions covered the current state of the science and pathways for accelerating research, along with opportunities and challenges for using this novel translational approach to exposure science to advance human health. This Proceedings of a Workshop outlines the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

[2023]

©2022

Erschienen:

Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press ; 2023

©2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cooper, Ruth [VerfasserIn]
Nass, Sharyl J. [VerfasserIn]
Berkower, Carol [VerfasserIn]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [teilw. kostenfrei]

ISBN:

978-0-309-68795-9

0-309-68795-0

Themen:

Congress
Disease Susceptibility
Environmental Exposure
Human-Animal Bond
Neoplasms
Pets
Sentinel Species
United States

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 6, 2023)

Umfang:

1 online resource (1 PDF file (xx, 152 pages)) ; illustrations

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1844458512