Research suggests that dogs have an extraordinary ability to detect illness, including cancer, through their sense of smell. The idea first emerged in 1989 when a woman noticed her dog persistently ...

In a nutshell Researchers discovered how a specific genetic mutation (PIK3CA) changes the way blood vessel cancers grow and evade the immune system in both dogs and humans, potentially leading to new ...

it's found in the mouth when it becomes a lump and presses against the face. Dogs with this kind of cancer that have surgery usually only survive 3 to 18 months, depending on how advanced the ...

These clever dogs are the first in the UK to be trained to sniff out bowel cancer. The Medical Detection Dogs Charity began a ground-breaking study in 2024 to teach seven pooches how to detect tumors ...

The cancer's high incidence in dogs—estimated at more than 50,000 cases annually in veterinary clinics—provides researchers with valuable data that could benefit human patients with ...

They have proved to researchers they can sniff out bowel cancer - and now face a stage of tricky 'blind tests' before the results are official. The charity hopes the dogs will deliver an accurate ...