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Angakuk
bear cub
Username: Angakuk
Post Number: 7
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 2:31 am: |     |
Sunday I caught the tail end of a 60 Minutes piece on research which is being done on the ability of dogs to identify the presence of bladder cancer in urine samples. The study showed a 41% success rate compared 14% expected for random results. Talk about "man's best friend"!
Here is the reference for the British Medical Journal (Sept. 2004) article:
Olfactory Detection of Cancer by Dogs
Here is the ref for the 60 Minutes article:
Cancer Sniffing Dogs
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Frebec
gatherer
Username: Frebec
Post Number: 83
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 12:04 pm: | |
I caught that part of it too. I was flipping between channels. I thought they also said that one caught a sample that the lab had said no cancer and the dog kept hitting on. Turns out they tested the sample again and found that the lab was wrong.
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Angakuk
hunter
Username: Angakuk
Post Number: 486
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 12:15 am: | |
More on cancer detection by dogs.
National Geographic News
Dogs Smell Cancer in Patients' Breath: Study Shows,Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
January 12, 2006
Dogs can detect if someone has cancer just by sniffing the person's breath, a new study shows.
Ordinary household dogs with only a few weeks of basic "puppy training" learned to accurately distinguish between breath samples of lung- and breast-cancer patients and healthy subjects.
"Our study provides compelling evidence that cancers hidden beneath the skin can be detected simply by [dogs] examining the odors of a person's breath," said Michael McCulloch, who led the research...
"It takes all kinds to make a world and I'm just one of them." My Grandmother
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Sweetsunray
storyteller
Username: Sweetsunray
Post Number: 890
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 10:48 am: | |
Just wondering... what if you have a bad breath? Are there other illnesses that can cause a "cancer" breath?
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