A gentle giant's fight for tomorrow

Hugo is, in the words of his owner Wendy Legge, a “gentle giant”—a 65-pound mixed breed dog who defers even to the family’s two cats, Hudson and Rosie. He has spent 13 years with the Legge family in a household that cherishes its geriatric animals.

But earlier this year, a routine dental cleaning delivered a devastating surprise: a nodule in his mouth tested positive for malignant melanoma.

That's where the VMC Medical Oncology Service and the Veterinary Clinical Investigation Center (CIC) stepped in, offering a new path: a Phase II clinical trial testing a novel cancer vaccine. Read the full story here.