Lead: The University of Queensland
This project will develop the first Australia-wide registry of animal and complementary human cancers. The registry, ACARCinom, will generate a sustainable, unified, integrated and accessible data asset for identifying patterns and trends in animal and human cancers, as well as quantifying the role of predisposing risk factors. Companion animals are sentinels of certain human cancers of environmental origin and analysis of the ACARCinom data asset can point to shared cancer hot-spots and uncover associated predisposing environmental risk factors for cancers in animals and humans.