"Veterinarians and physicists [did they mean Physicians?] are teaming up to share information about the diseases prevalent in older women and among Siberian tigers and other large jungle cats. The information will help in development of treatments.
A global authority on breast cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Dr. Larry Norton, will be presenting the information.
Scientists will also throw light on findings of a male gorilla with a seizure disorder, tumors in domestic ferrets and a California sea lion with an eating disorder.
Animal and human cases will be compared to figure out ways and develop new treatments. The comparison will be made by scientists from medical hubs including the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the National Institutes of Health and The Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The conference will be held in New York on Saturday.
"I believe I'll learn something from human-line physicians Saturday that could be immediately applied on Sunday to my animal patients, and perhaps they'll learn things from me for their human patients", said Dr. Richard Goldstein, chief medical officer at New York's Animal Medical Center."
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