Detecting Cancer With Dogs

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skin tumor on her owner's leg, but it is not known how the dog was able to do this (Dog; Schulte). The dog repeatedly sniffed a mole on her thigh while disregarding others, and even tried to bite it off when she wore shorts. The dog's constant attention to the mole persuaded her to seek medical attention, which may have saved her life because the mole was a malignant melanoma. In India, a specialized training program is underway to train dogs to detect cancer at the Commando Kennels Private Ltd. Of Secunderabad (Kumar). The idea was spawned by a local village boy visiting the kennels who had advanced melanoma, a type of skin cancer, when the kennel owner read of a woman who's dog was continually sniffing at a mole-like spot on her leg, and when she had it checked out, it was found to be melanoma. This made him interested to see if he could train dogs to detect the cancer before it got to the advanced stages this boy had.

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