NCI began collecting a standardized abstract of every animal case that passed through the Veterinary Teaching Hospitals at the Schools of Veterinary Sciences in North America. Of course, these hospital records are a compendium of all the cases that the universities see, not just the cancer cases This makes VMDB a valuable resource for finding incidences of thousand of animal diseases, problems and procedures. VMDB also has more than thirty possible summary breakdowns available to analyze this data.
Typical summaries range from breed, age and sex to institution and year.
A VMDB search can allow the researcher to get overall pictures of occurrences by using the summaries, and it can also point to the full medical record that is housed at each participating Veterinary School for an in-depth study. Searches for students and researchers from participating universities that are currently sending data to VMDB are absolutely free of charge. Normally the search results can be returned in 10 days after the search request is received. If you would like to have a search request form, please click here . If you would like to fill a search request form and email it back to us, please click here .