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 ...

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 ...

Cancer: The leading cause of death in dogs. Common types in senior dogs include mast cell tumors, lymphoma, hemangiosarcoma, squamous cell carcinoma, oral melanomas, and osteosarcoma (bone cancer) ...

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 ...