Discover! Confirm that dogs are able to detect cancer in human blood

This Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Orlando A study confirming that dogs can accurately detect cancer in the blood has been reported.

By MiamiDiario Editorial

It would be a great discovery for health because it is a new approach to the economic and minimally invasive detection of cancer.

This is a very sensitive test for detecting cancer, in which dogs can use their highly evolved sense of smell take blood samples from people with cancer with an accuracy of almost 97%.

The success of this test is due to the fact that hairy odor receptors are 10,000 times more accurate than those of humans.

Procedure in four beagles

Junqueira and his colleagues used a form of clicker training to teach four Beagles to distinguish between normal blood serum and samples of patients with malignant lung cancer.

Although one beagle was not motivated, the other three dogs correctly identified lung cancer samples in 96.7% of cases and normal samples in 97.5% of cases, according to the study. .

Researchers plan to use odor detection in dogs to develop a non-invasive form of cancer detection.

They also hope to determine the biological compounds that dogs detect and then develop cancer screening tests based on these compounds.

With information from Spark

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