The number and location of the intestinal tumors is modified by unlinked genes.
It is being used in experiments on patients with pituitary or intestinal tumors.
Surgical treatment remains the treatment of choice for cats and dogs diagnosed with intestinal tumors who are in otherwise good health.
At age thirty-two, Little Current had to be euthanized as a result of an intestinal tumor.
Armed died in 1964 of an intestinal tumor.
"Now, in a year, there are hundreds of cases," she said, putting the number as high as 400, mostly stomach and intestinal tumors.
Mr. Clapes died after surgery on an intestinal tumor, his son Anthony said.
It is the third most common intestinal tumor in cats, after lymphoma and adenocarcinoma.
The Pope last underwent surgery in July 1992, for the removal of a large intestinal tumor.
In 1962, Hoover had a malignant intestinal tumor removed.