Lung Cancer can be Sniffed by Specially Trained Dogs
by Rizza Estanilla in Fitness on Aug 28, 2011
According to researchers, through smelling the breath of most patients who are diagnosed with lung cancer, specially trained dogs can identify that they have lung cancer.
The researchers from Schillerhoehe Hospital in Gerlingen, Germany stated that the dogs only failed to identify twenty eight patients. The specially trained dogs sniffed a hundred breath samples coming from those patients who have lung cancer.
The study was reported in an online journal of European Respiratory Journal.
The researchers found out that among the four hundred other samples examined from the patients who doesn’t have lung cancer, the test have given false positives for just twenty eight.
On the other hand, Thorsten Walles and his colleagues recommended that their findings pose significant information in substantiating that human breath are containing lung cancer markers, which sooner or later may possibly be detected through the standard means.
Walles explained that this study is a big step towards lung cancer diagnosis. However, he and his colleagues still necessitate having an accurate identification of the compounds examined in the patients’ breath.
Earlier studies had also presented that the keen sense of smell of the dogs can help classify several forms of cancer in patients, which included colon, lung, and breast tumors through the means of sniffing.
The original proposal started in 1989 having a man’s case report, a melanoma was found out due to the dog’s sniffing his laceration.
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