Dogs Detecting Prostate Cancer

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George Conklin - 10 Jan 2005 13:51 GMT

60 Minutes did a piece on dogs smelling bladder cancer from urine samples.
It was published in a refereed journal. They also commented that tests are
underway to see if dogs can detect prostate cancer. Has anyone read of this
experiment in a print-based journal which is/is not on the WWW anywhere? I
know of dogs who are crotch sniffers, but this seems like science!!!

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ron - 10 Jan 2005 14:45 GMT

George...Full text is available at
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7468/712
If you search [dog, bladder cancer] on PubMed you'll get a couple more
hits. Apparently there have been a few responses to the article...Ron

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George Conklin - 11 Jan 2005 00:15 GMT

> George...Full text is available at
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7468/712
> If you search [dog, bladder cancer] on PubMed you'll get a couple more
> hits. Apparently there have been a few responses to the article...Ron

Thanks. What I was wondering about is the expansion of the study to see
if dogs can smell prostate cancer, as reported on 60 minutes. Is there any
hard copy reference to that?

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