Comments on: Dogs Can Smell Lung Cancer on Your Breath, Even If You’ve Just Had Lunch

By: gary lynn

gary lynn — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:21:57 +0000

And cats just still suck out
your life’s breath, right?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:49:58 +0000

Also, VIP, these are trained dogs. They’re trained to smell out the smell of the cancer and, like most rescue and bomb search dogs, each one has their own liking. They’ll hint or do some type of movement that will tell you if you have it or not. Much like body searching dogs and everything. Your dogs aren’t trained, therefore they don’t know what to say when they smell it, because they know nothing of it.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:41:44 +0000

This is very interesting… LOVELY!

But what kind of dog is in that picture?

By: pinky

pinky — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:56:58 +0000

i don’t think it happens to be evolutionary for the purpose of dogs eating out the cancer or some similar business the evolution was dogs having very hightened sense of smell, we’re just taking advantage of that. this is pretty neat but the issue isn’t finding it, its getting rid of it. Maybe they’ll research leprosy or worms next?

By: Bear

Bear — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:25:01 +0000

Will dogs or carnivors in general eat cancerous tissue? Is it harmful to the dog? If not then what is the evolutionary advantage of being able to sniff out cancer?

By: VIP

VIP — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:19:11 +0000

“Dogs Can Smell Lung Cancer on Your Breath, Even If You’ve Just Had Lunch”.
Knowing and having lived with dogs most of my life, and having cancer in my lungs, unfortunately dogs have a major problem telling you.