Medical Dogs: Trained Cancer Sniffers (Part 3)

Cancer-sniffing dogs are trained using a methodology very similar to that used with drug dogs and bomb-sniffing dogs. So far, the experiments have shown a great potential for the cancer-sniffers. There are those who do not believe the dogs will every be a reliable tool, but many in the medical community are excited at the prospect of utilizing trained dogs to help diagnose cancers. They maintain there is a detectable difference in odor between healthy cells and those impacted by cancer and that a properly trained dog can, indeed, tell the difference between the two.

Dogs are already considered man’s best friend-and with good reason. In addition to being our friendly companions, they continue to provide us with assistance in many ways. From the rescue St. Bernard to the Sheltie sheepherders, dogs have proven themselves worthy partners in many endeavors. Their status as our best friends will certainly be even further cemented if current training and research allows our canine friends to become one of our best ways of detecting cancer in human patients before it has significantly progressed.

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