Saturday, June 19, 2010

Study: Dogs Can Detect Prostate Cancer

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.

Read more at Yahoo News.

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