Dogs Detect Lung, Breast Cancer Patients In Study

[Kadie]

Man's Best Friend May Be Able To Smell Cancer
Dogs Detect Lung, Breast Cancer Patients In Study

POSTED: 1:13 pm PST January 12, 2006


Man's best friend can be a great source of company, but dogs might offer much more than that.

A study published in the March issue of the journal Integrative Cancer Therapies suggests that dogs' extraordinary sense of smell can detect people with both early and late-stage lung and breast cancers.

The dogs in the study detected breast and lung cancer 88 percent of the time, with few false-positives.

The research, led by Michael McCulloch of the Pine Street Foundation in San Anselmo, Calif., and Tadeusz Jezierski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is the first to test whether dogs can detect cancers only by sniffing the exhaled breath of cancer patients.

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[tocqueville]

1. Miss Beasly is sniffing prostates all day

just in case

[mom cat]

2. My cats have always gravitated towards places in my body that had damage

or disease, even before I could detect the problems. Our furry friends are indeed the best!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. No surprise to me. They have many abilities that we know nothing

about....

[Margaret Diann]

4. Maybe a new Breatholizor could do the same?

Find out what the dogs are 'smelling' and see if medical researchers could develop something similar.

[ailsagirl]

5. I heard about this before and find it absolutely amazing

It was an English TV program and it mentioned a dog that could
sniff out cancer-- long before any signs were detected by doctors.