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The specific anatomical and physiological features of dog olfaction allow humans to achieve outstanding results in the detection of drugs, explosives, and different illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, or infectious disease.
1 lut 2024 · Taste and smell abnormalities as an independent cause of failure of food intake in patients with advanced cancer—an argument for the application of sensory science
1 maj 2017 · This systematic review highlights the scientific reports testing canine olfaction to detect cancer, dividing them according to the cancer's primary site. Several lines of evidence suggest that dogs may play a critical role in cancer research and diagnosis, eventually be major contributors to a reduction in mortality for certain cancers.
1 sie 2022 · The first case report of a dog alerting its owner of cancer, published in the Lancet in 1989, described a dog that persistently sniffed at a lesion on its owner’s leg, which was later diagnosed as melanoma (Williams and Pembroke, 1989).
11 lis 2023 · Background: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Several studies have demonstrated that dogs can sniff and detect cancer in the breath or urine sample of a patient.
27 lut 2020 · Efforts to determine the limits of canine olfactory detection may help identify dogs with superior potential for medical detection and may help monitor the day to day reliability of the trained dogs. Concha et al. present the first published study to measure limits of detection of known odorants in the fluid phase.
1 cze 2022 · Diagnosis by canine olfaction, using dogs trained to detect cancer by smell, has been shown to be both specific and sensitive.
