Study: Dogs Can Detect Prostate Cancer

[Jazzy]

A study presented earlier this month at a meeting of the American Urological Association by a team of French researchers found that a particular dog breed, Belgian Malinois shepherd dogs, can be trained to detect prostate cancer.





Doctors at Paris's Hospital Tenon trained the dogs to distinguish between the smell of urine from men with prostate cancer and those without it. At the end of the training and study the dogs correctly identified 63 out of 66 samples.



Full story link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100619/sc_livescience/studydogscandetectprostatecancer

 

[The Dragon Master]

I've read about this somewhere

It's really amazing what animals can do

 

[Kasynlie]

I've read about this somewhere

It's really amazing what animals can do

I've read this somewhere before too. Really awesome.

 

[GardsJr]

I wonder if they detect it the same way humans do...



Anyway, that is really amazing!

 

[Kasynlie]

I wonder if they detect it the same way humans do...

I think they would detect it the same way they detect drugs and such material. The things humans can't smell, dogs can.

 

[Kasynlie]

I agree with Smooth. Just stick a cancer detection dog at the hospital reception and if it scratches, you know you need to be checked.

 

[Evil Eye]

And you'd give all the homeless dogs a hoe at the same time!



Cool.