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Our Stories
Dr. Stephen Withrow
As an intern, in 1972, at the Animal Medical Center in New York City, very green and young, I used to attend the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center rounds. I became aware that veterinary medicine could have a significant influence on human health, at the same time, treating animals.
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Dr. Susan Lana
Before I even knew I wanted to be a veterinarian, I had an interest in studying cancer. While in college, I worked in the blood bank of a hospital with a large bone marrow transplant unit. There, I began to understand that cancer is so different. It’s not just one disease, it’s many diseases with many different outcomes. It’s also a non-discriminatory disease; anybody can get it. You don’t have to be rich or poor, black or white, or a dog or a cat…anybody can be touched by cancer.
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Dr. Nichole Ehrhart
I meet a little girl named Jenny who just had an amputation due to cancer. As a young surgery resident, learning about limb-salvage surgical procedures, I wondered why her leg had to be amputated. That’s when I discovered there weren’t any limb-salvage options for children, because children are still growing. That little girl inspired me to be part of the global battle against cancer. The over-arching goal of my research is limb preservation.
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Dr. Doug Thamm
My wife and I are actually both cancer survivors. I had to take a year off of veterinary school to be treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. My wife was treated for thyroid cancer. Prior to that experience, I had an opportunity to spend some time doing laboratory research at the University of Pennsylvania. I really got the sense that I wanted to have a research component to my career.
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Meredy Razey
It all started with my love for animals... I started working for a small animal private practice after school and then applied for a job at CSU. I have been here ever since. I joined Dr. Stephen Withrow in 1985, when he was first getting the oncology service started. In the early days of the oncology service I was the only oncology nurse.
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Dr. Susan LaRue
Dr. Susan LaRue is originally from Maryland and received her undergraduate education at the University of Maryland. She received her DVM from the University of Georgia, where she also did her internship. She came to Colorado State University in 1983 for a residency in small animal surgery, and subsequently became a Diplomate in the College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS).
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Dr. Barb Biller
I was interested in equine medicine when I started veterinary school, and thought it’d be fun to treat horses. The oncology lectures in my third year, changed my mind. The instructor was a really good teacher and really fired up my imagination about treating cancer. From there it was mostly meeting the right people at the right time as I went along. My interest continued to increase as I realized that oncology was a great way to incorporate the research background I had before I went into veterinary school.
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Dr. Stewart Ryan
When I was in school, I wanted to be either a pilot or a veterinarian. Those were my two big things. I applied to join the Air Force and, much to my mother’s relief, I didn’t get accepted. I then applied to Vet School at the University of Melbourne, Australia and was accepted.
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Lynda Reed
I was always impressed with how the oncology service cared for the people who called into the hospital. I was especially impressed with Dr. Withrow. It didn’t matter if it was the president, or the CEO of a company, or the little old woman who lived in a shoe, he took every call.
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Dr. Janet Lori
We had a bazillion animals when I was growing up; from tarantulas and anything else we found along the side of the road, to dogs, cats and cows. From the time I was just a little kid, my interest was animals. I’m like every other little kid who says they want to be a veterinarian. I just followed through with it.
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Dr. Dan Gustafson
I went to graduate school in 1988, in biochemistry. It just happened that I was working on the biochemistry of drugs used to treat cancer. It was really that serendipitous. The kind of chemistry I was interested in focused on the development of chemotherapeutic agents. I studied them from a purely biochemistry side, with no thought whatsoever of them going into people or animals. And when I started, nobody in my family had been diagnosed, treated, or died of cancer. That’s changed dramatically. With four aunts, an uncle, and my mother having been diagnosed since then, the family history became very personal very quickly.
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Kathy Paris
I love my job as the Consult Coordinator, the people I talk to on the consult line come first. When clients and veterinarians call the consult line, they’re surprised that they get a live person. They call because their pet has cancer or they need information to help a patient under their care. Sometimes when clients call, they’ve just learned the diagnosis. I’ve talked to people who have literally just heard the diagnosis and are in their vet’s lobby, waiting for their animal to be released. They can be pretty distraught and not know what to do.
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Animal Cancer Center
The CSU Robert H. and Mary G Flint Animal Cancer Center opened its doors in 2002. The building is a 35,000 square foot addition to the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital and is dedicated to innovative and collaborative cancer research and state-of-the-art cancer diagnostics and treatment for pets.
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