You say that one key is experimenting on pets(which will have huge barriers in the west). In china, eating dogs is legal.So why haven't we seen such research coming from china, and especially successful drugs from there?
Actually there has been some research into cancer treatment using pets in the west, just not as much as we should be doing [1].
We really need to organise all the pets into clinical trials of new treatments. People have done surveys of pet owners and most people are happy for their pet to participate in such trials especially if they know that they are helping human research and other pets. We just need to start using this amazing resource rather than giving mice artificial cancers.
As for why more research has not come out of China, a lot of really interesting research is going on right now in China, it will just take a little time to filter out to us in the west. Drug development is a 15 to 20 year journey and China has only recently entered this domain.
We really need to organise all the pets into clinical trials of new treatments. People have done surveys of pet owners and most people are happy for their pet to participate in such trials especially if they know that they are helping human research and other pets. We just need to start using this amazing resource rather than giving mice artificial cancers.
As for why more research has not come out of China, a lot of really interesting research is going on right now in China, it will just take a little time to filter out to us in the west. Drug development is a 15 to 20 year journey and China has only recently entered this domain.
1. http://vetmed.illinois.edu/translational-cancer-research-ben...