“Dognosis” - Dog Sniffing as Cancer Detection & Screening Tool
Of Dogs and Cancer
Dogs can often detect cancer, even in its early stages, by smelling the breath of patients for telltale chemicals given off by cancer cells, a clinical trial in California shows.
The Portuguese water dogs and Labradors could, after brief training, sniff out which people had lung or breast cancer with accuracy rates between 88 and 99 per cent — better numbers than some laboratory tests.
And they weren’t thrown off by cigarette odour in breath.
Source: Canada.com
Currently this clinical trial is conducted for lung and breast cancers. I wonder if this “Dognosis” will detect oral malignancy as well, especially at the early stage of carcinogensis. It will be interesting to find out the research protocol utilized by this particular clinical trial when published in a research journal.
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