Rescue dog Rosie’s cancer shrinks after world-first mRNA vaccine | The Australian
The tale of this heartbroken tech entrepreneur, his tumour-riddled rescue dog and a cure for cancer has leading scientists astounded. Riddled with cancer, Rosie the rescue dog had only months to live, until her dogged owner collared a chatbot to collaborate with elite medical scientists in the quest for a cure. Now the hi-tech teamwork has unleashed an experimental medicine that offers hope to human patients, by using mRNA vaccines in oncology. Abandoned in bushland, eight-year-old Rosie found her forever home with Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham, who adopted the staffy-shar pei cross from an animal shelter in 2019 – just in time for pandemic lockdowns. Heartbroken when his fur-baby was diagnosed with a deadly mast cell cancer in 2024, Mr Conyngham threw thousands of dollars at veterinary chemotherapy and surgery, which slowed but failed to shrink the tumours. Now, after treatment with a custom mRNA cancer vaccine over the Christmas break, the tennis ball-sized tumour on Rosie
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