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Dogs sniff prostate cancer

Sfruttare le capacità olfattive dei cani to discover in the urine of patients the presence of prostate cancer. This is the curious method tested, apparently successfully, by some French scientists who have long experienced the ability of four-legged friends as the basis of reliable tests for early detection of cancer. A team of medical experts and biochemists, led by Olivier Cussenot, professor of urology oncology at the Hospital Tenon in Paris, said he had trained a Belgian shepherd (the same race to which we rely for the detection of explosives, narcotics or persons buried by avalanches) to acknowledge the presence of prostate cancer with an accuracy that was equal to 91 per cent. "This means, as the authors point out the research, that the urine of sick people has a peculiar smell - says Bernardo Rocco, urologist to the European Institute of Oncology in Milan -. Based on this observation, then, could groped for improvement of the biochemical tests have been used in the laboratory for the identification of this form of cancer. "