{"id":2515,"date":"2007-06-11T05:26:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyhealth.com\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2021-04-24T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T07:03:50","slug":"can-dogs-sniff-out-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/can-dogs-sniff-out-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Can dogs sniff out cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All of us know that dogs<\/strong> have powerful sense of smell.<\/strong> Their world is a very complex, olfactory world. They are surrounded by a vast array of different things that we are hardly aware of. A recent research throws light on the fact that dogs can smell cancer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Broom<\/strong> and fellow researcher Barbara Somerville<\/strong> believe that the sense of smell in dogs may be far greater than anyone realizes. They believe that dogs, with their extraordinary noses<\/strong>, can smell cancer.<\/p>\n

In September, a leading medical journal in Britain, the BMI<\/strong>, published this astonishing fact that dogs can be trained to recognize and flag bladder cancer.<\/p>\n

After having conducted several experiments to confirm this astounding fact, the scientists were assured with every step that trained pet dogs<\/strong> show signs of being anxious and upset, whenever they encounter a person with cancer.<\/p>

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It is believed that in the sixth century, Hippocrates<\/strong> described fruity smells associated with people with diabetes and musty smells associated with liver disease. But no one knew that cancer had a smell. And the most sensitive noses<\/strong> on earth can detect that with alarming accuracy.<\/p>\n

If dogs can identify such odors<\/strong>, the results for medicine would be enormous. Their noses might provide early detection of a disease that even science cannot achieve.<\/p>\n

More studies in this regard are taking place. In California<\/strong>, a test of dogs’ ability to detect lung cancer is on the way, and in England, with the help of a cancer researcher at Cambridge, Broom and Somerville are concluding their study on prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

Final results are expected this year, but early tests show very high success rates.<\/p>\n

If the ongoing study is 100%<\/strong> accepted and established by the scientists world over, than dogs can be trained to smell certain other diseases that give out smell. And once a dog is qualified to pick up that smell, it has a good chance of detecting it in the future.<\/p>\n

We can call dogs as not just guardians of their master’s property but also of his health.<\/p>\n

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Via: Thecancerblog<\/p>\n

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