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.
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If you want to look at dogs in a new way, on Neflix they have a doc called dogs decoded.
It is about how dogs are unique in they relate to people, due to genetics.
They really are Man’s best friend.
How does the dog tell the person that they have bowel cancer? arf arf arf? woof woof?
So that’s why my Lab firmly sniffs the crotch of every guest who walks in our house. Gets all kinds of reactions.
LOL
Hi tech!!! First we had the CAT Scan and now the DOG Scan. What’s next the GERBIL Scan?
>>Cats can be smart, when they want to.<<
Cats don’t broadcast it so they don’t get exploited right.
LOL!
What a crappy life for a poor dog!
Stealing that. I have two pugs.
I know this is true because my basenji (a scenthound) detected my brother’s colon cancer. We were visiting at their house, and my dog laid down in a pile of his dirty clothes in the laundry and took a nap. He then went upstairs and laid down in my brother’s walk-in closet. He has never done anything like this before. He ignored all the other clothes laying around from my brother’s wife and kids. It was spooky! My brother was having vague symptoms, but wanted to wait for a colonoscopy. After this happened, he scheduled it for the following week. They found 3 polyps, one of which was cancerous. My brother was 44 when this happened. If he had waited until he was 50, which is when the government recommends your first screening, his cancer would’ve been well advanced.
This is great. So now when company comes over and my dog is sniffy their crotch, I can just say “hey, you may have cancer.”
Thanks for all your work on doggie pings Joe.
Squeak! Cute.
That lab tech is a real dog...
Okay, I think you can imagine the first image that came to my mind when I read that headline.
How are they at detecting reproductive-system and bladder cancers...sniffing the front side, as it were?
Ping
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