Cancer Sniffing Dogs for Detecting Early Stage Cancer and Other Diseases

Breast Cancer Detecting Dog better than mammography test. 

Biopsy confirms the breast cancer.

From "Secret Life of Dogs" by BBC.
A Dog smells a cancer that could not be detected without a biopsy. As soon as the operation was done the dog became energetic and happy.

Note : Most dogs can be trained to detect the volatile chemicals let off by cancerous growths.

Types of Cancer Detectable :

Apparently dogs can detect Breast, Lung, Bladder, Prostate, Ovarian from Breath, Urine or Tissue samples.

1. Ovarian Cancer : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264629.php
2. Bowel Cancer : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/215347.php
3. Lung cancer is detected 99% of the time as per this link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection
4. Prostate Cancer :
   
   • http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277012.php
   • http://www.vosizneias.com/60484/2010/07/20/new-york-study-dogs-sense-of-smell-could-diagnose-prostate-cancer 
    
5. WebMD medical website : http://pets.webmd.com/features/pets-amazing-abilities

 Sniffer Dog Training

1. Early Cancer Detection foundation "In Situ" : http://www.dogsdetectcancer.org
   Videos of trained sniffer dogs : http://www.dogsdetectcancer.org/video
2. How Cancer Sniffing Dogs are trained : http://www.dogsdetectcancer.org/dogs-detect-cancer-blog/dogs-smell-cancer
3. How Dogs could possibly detect a Stage Zero Cancer (at single cell level) :  http://www.dogsdetectcancer.org/dogs-detect-cancer-blog/environment-cancer
4. Book - "What The Dog Knows - The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs" : http://www.amazon.com/What-Dog-Knows-Science-Working/dp/1451667310

Quora on Cancer Sniffing Dogs

1. https://www.quora.com/Lisa-Colnett-2/Posts/How-Dogs-Could-Revolutionize-Cancer-Detection
2. https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-hospitals-routinely-use-cancer-sniffer-dogs-for-early-cancer-detection
3. https://www.quora.com/Some-dogs-can-smell-it-when-humans-have-cancer-What-other-medical-conditions-and-attributes-can-dogs-detect
4. https://www.quora.com/Emotional-Intelligence/How-are-dogs-able-to-smell-or-sense-cancer-Does-cancer-have-an-actual-smell-to-it-or-are-dogs-able-to-sense-it-some-other-way
5. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-that-pets-can-find-cancer-and-other-diseases-by-smell
6. https://www.quora.com/How-are-dogs-trained-to-smell-cancer-or-any-other-diseases-in-the-human-body
7. https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-one-size-fits-all-checks-you-can-do-for-detecting-cancer
8. https://www.quora.com/Are-cancer-sniffing-dogs-real
9. https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-ability-of-animals-e-g-dogs-to-sense-human-disorders-discovered-then-implemented-and-has-it-been-researched-to-find-the-mechanism-used-by-the-animals-Is-it-smell-sight-hearing-or-some-sort-of-ESP
10. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-cancer-to-spread-throughout-a-persons-body-without-him-her-noticing-through-any-symptoms