Can Dogs Detect Breast Cancer?

Photo Credit:

Mark Large

SOURCES:

Claire Guest, co-founder and CEO, Medical Detection Dogs, Milton Keynes, UK.

Environmental Science & Technology: “Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Humans Indoors.”

Maria Goodavage, author, Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine.

Minnesota Department of Health: “Volatile Organic Compounds in Your Home.”

Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health: “Real-world volatile organic compound emission rates from seated adults and children for use in indoor air studies.”

Integrative Cancer Therapies: “Diagnostic Accuracy of Canine Scent Detection in Early- and Late-Stage Lung and Breast Cancers.”

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: “Are sniffer dogs a reliable approach for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection?”

Oncotarget: “Differentiation between genetic mutations of breast cancer by breath volatolomics.”

Plos One: “Cross detection for odor of metabolic waste between breast and colorectal cancer using canine olfaction.”

Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy: “Seizure-alert dogs: a review and preliminary study.”