Dogs Sniff Out Clues in the Fight Against Cancer

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By Sean Kelley
They’ve got funny names for cancer researchers, like Captain Jennings and Tibbs. They’re also a little furry and have a tendency to lick their white-coated colleagues. But these canine lab assistants may one day make it possible to detect cancers early enough to keep them from becoming fatal.

The Pine Street Foundation, a cancer education and research center in San Anselmo, Calif., is hoping one day to train these dogs to sniff out, literally, early-stage ovarian cancer—a disease that kills two-thirds of the 22,000 women diagnosed with it each year, according to the American Cancer Society, because it is often caught only after it has spread beyond the ovaries.

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[Nomad]

Anything that works should be tried.

[elle]

Anything that works should be tried.

X2!!

Cancer is a horrible desease and too often strikes those who did everything right. I look forward to learning if this program has any success.

[289sotherhalf]

Anything that works should be tried.

X2!!

Cancer is a horrible desease and too often strikes those who did everything right. I look forward to learning if this program has any success.

x3!

I've also read some stories where dogs have alerted their owners to certain areas of the body and after seeing a Dr., they were diagnosed with cancer. We have dogs who alert people when they're about to have seizures, or when their blood sugar is low. It takes the saying, "Dogs are man's best friend." to a whole 'nother level!

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ancer.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26408446/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;