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Canine cancer survivors, their owners and Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke join Dolores McCall in breaking ground today (Wednesday, Oct. 20) for a $1.4 million radiation therapy facility to be built at the School of Veterinary Medicine. McCall is donating $1 million for an endowed professorship for a radiation oncologist and another $1 million to the school. This will be Indiana's first veterinary radiation therapy facility. Pictured, from left, are Mark Regan, with the Regan's Labrador retriever and cancer survivor Charlie; Kyler Laird; Kitty Laird, with cancer survivor Greta (behind Charlie); Purdue Provost Sally Mason; McCall; Jischke; School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Alan Rebar; comparative oncologist Deborah Knapp; and Amy Regan.
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Adam Regan, 4, pets his family's 8-year-old Labrador retriever, Charlie, who has been treated for cancer for three years at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine. Amy and Mark Regan, of Crown Point, Ind., brought Charlie and their two sons, Adam and Mark, 3, to the groundbreaking for the state's first veterinary radiation therapy facility.
(Purdue News Service photos/David Umberger)
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