A new study finds that dogs can feel cancer with incredible precision
Just when you thought you could not love them anymore.
Dogs provide us with unconditional love and support,Remember to be grateful and presentand keep us on foot andhealthy in our golden years. But it turns out, there is another skill dog who can improve our lives a lot. New research presented atAmerican Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, suggests that the sense of highly scalable dog smell can identify cancer in blood samples with accuracy of about 97%.
While humans only have six million smell receptors in their noses, dogs have300 million, which means that they are about 10,000 times better to detect odors than humans. Lead this new research,Heather Junqueiraprincipal investigatorBiocendxAnd his colleagues used a form of clickers training to teach four beagles to distinguish healthy patients' blood samples and those with malignant lung cancer. Although one of the Beagles has been demotivated to participate in the experience, the other three have managed to correctly identify the 96.7% lung cancer samples and normal samples of 97.5% of the time.
"This work is very exciting because it paves the way for additional research on two paths, which could both lead to new cancer detection tools", Junqueiranoted. "One uses canine perfume detection as a process for screening cancers, and the other would be to determine the biological compounds that dogs detect and design cancer screening tests based on these compounds."
The new study relies on previous research, including a2017 study This has found a Golden Retriever formed and PitBull Mix could identify the presence of lung cancer through breath samples with an extremely high precision rate. Before that, there was a2013 study This found that trained dogs could detect breast cancer through 97% blood samples. So there is the2011 study Involving a marine-named black laboratory that has been 97% accurate to detect colon cancer in furniture stool samples, which has made its success rate even higher than the physician tests.
In many of these studies, what was particularly impressive was the fact that dogs could detect cancer while still at its very early stages, which could make them even more useful than laboratory tests when 'Takes detection. "Although there is currently no cure for cancer, early detection offers the best hope for survival," Junqueira said. "A very sensitive test to detect cancer could potentially save thousands of lives and change the way the disease is treated."
And cancer is not the only disease that dogs can help detect. For more things about that, check thisnew study on how dogs can feel the convulsions before starting.
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