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Dogs Can Accurately Sniff out Early Stage Bowel Cancer
ScienceDaily ^
| February 1, 2011
| Unknown
Posted on 02/14/2011 7:55:24 AM PST by Immerito
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2011) — Dogs can sniff out bowel cancer in breath and stool samples, with a very high degree of accuracy -- even in the early stages of the disease -- reveals research published online in the journal Gut.
The findings prompt the authors to suggest that chemical compounds for specific cancers circulate throughout the body, which opens up the prospect of developing tests to pick up the disease before it has had the chance to spread elsewhere.
A specially trained Labrador retriever completed 74 sniff tests, each comprising five breath (100 to 200 ml) or stool samples (50 ml) at a time, only one of which was cancerous, over a period of several months.
The samples came from 48 people with confirmed bowel cancer and 258 volunteers with no bowel cancer or who had had cancer in the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: bowelcancer; cancer; dog; doggieping; dogs; dogsniff
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:55:29 AM PST
by
Immerito
To: Joe 6-pack
More evidence that dogs are superior to cats (whoever heard of a cat doing this?) ping
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:57:31 AM PST
by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: Immerito
I don’t know about cancer, but my dogs can sniff out anything I’m eating that they think they might beg a bite of from outside and over 90 feet away!
To: Immerito
I find it incredible that dogs have developed their butt-sniffing of each other from an art into a science.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:01:54 AM PST
by
Bob
To: Immerito
Gives new meaning to the term “Lab Test”.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:03:22 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; apackof2; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; metmom; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:05:04 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Immerito
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:05:04 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Immerito
They are also the latest trend in pest control sniffing out termite infestations that inspectors cannot see.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:05:40 AM PST
by
cajuncow
To: Immerito
I hope these labs are being adequately compensated.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:06:57 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Bob
It’s a win-win situation ... the dogs get to sniff poop, and the humans get a better shot at having their cancer cured.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:08:20 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: cajuncow
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:08:54 AM PST
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: I cannot think of a name
You wanna' see a trained dog go crazy, hang around the baggage section when they bring in a flight from Columbia.
The TSA, EPA and DEA sniffer dogs start alerting on every piece of chicken in or out of sight. "THEY" know what's in those bags.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:11:39 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: cajuncow
"They are also the latest trend in pest control sniffing out termite infestations that inspectors cannot see"
One of the local (to Austin) exterminators has been using specially trained beagles for this for 20+ years.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:12:57 AM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: Immerito
Dogs are incredibly sensitive to illness in their owners. If only we could read their minds....
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:14:19 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
To: BitWielder1
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:19:03 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Immerito
Well cats can sniff out death. There was this one cat at a nursing home that would jump up on the bed of a person who was about to die; and the cat knew it. Cats can be smart, when they want to.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:22:24 AM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White)
To: Immerito
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:23:08 AM PST
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
To: Immerito
This will be the new inexpensive route to cancer screening under Obamacare.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:26:54 AM PST
by
thethirddegree
(Islam is a vile, barbaric, perverted, depraved,seditious cult invented by a murdering pedophile)
To: ReverendJames
There was this one cat at a nursing home that would jump up on the bed of a person who was about to die; and the cat knew it. That cat was later found beaten to death in a broom closet......
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:28:53 AM PST
by
Thermalseeker
(The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
To: Bob
I find it incredible that dogs have developed their butt-sniffing of each other from an art into a science I wonder if they can sniff out global warming also. That science would be superior to algore's.
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