Dogs Detecting Cancer
Dogs Detecting Cancer
The idea that people can train dogs to sniff out cancer in a human has fascinated me ever since I read a magazine article from National Geographic in the waiting room of my doctor's office. My whole life I have had dogs, and I have always known that they are very inelegant animals, but the fact that people can train them to find something like cancer in humans just by the distinct smell is truly amazing to me. I do not remember the exact contents of the article, but it was about a professor that had trained drug dogs and hoped to begin training dogs in the near future to detect prostate cancer in men. At the time, I was working in a hospital on a surgical recovery floor where we had many male patients that suffered from prostate cancer, and many of them would have lived longer if they had early detection. This is actually the case with any type of cancer and if dogs can detect it even a day before doctors that would be great.
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