Dogs can sniff CANCER

Writing by me on Monday, 5 of March , 2007 at 6:29 pm

It would appear so.The cancer sniffer

The British Medical Journal this week published the results of a study in which dogs – ordinary pets – were able to distinguish the urine of patients with bladder cancer from that of healthy people.
Doctors believe the animals detect the scent of the abnormal proteins present in the urine of the patients with cancer.
It’s thought that a dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 times better than a human’s.
The idea that dogs may be able to smell cancer was first put forward in 1989 by two London dermatologists, who described the case of a woman asking for a mole to be cut out because her dog would constantly sniff at it, even through her pants, but ignore all her other moles.
One day, the dog, a female border collie-Doberman mix, tried to bite the mole off when the woman was wearing shorts.
The mole turned out to be malignant melanoma, caught early enough to save her life.
Here’s the recent news, as reported last week by the BBC.
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