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Lopez: US has only 400 veterinary oncologists for six million dogs

Christina Lopez · a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer · Feb 26, 2019 · at 17:24

Christina Lopez discusses access bottlenecks in canine cancer treatment and the scarcity of specialist veterinary oncologists in the US.

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“Not everyone can get to a vet oncologist, which there's only about three, 400 in the United States for, you know, think about six million dogs, three, 400, right?”

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