We’ve known for some time that dogs can be trained to detect some types of human cancer. In a new study, researchers have shown that our best friends are also able to smell bladder cancer in ...

The results of a study into whether cancer detection dogs can smell bladder cancer in other dogs' urine suggests that this could be an effective new way to diagnose the disease in dogs. The ...

If one of the tests indicated cancer, the team would perform a cystoscopy — a procedure that takes biopsy samples of the bladder. Of the 120 dogs in the study, 32 showed early signs of bladder cancer.

People are beginning to realize that dogs share a lot more with humans than just their homes and habits. Some spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are genetically very similar to those in people ...

Scottish terriers, famous for being presidential pets to presidents George W. Bush and Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Jock” in Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp,” and the cutest Monopoly game token, are also ...

Thirty-two of those 120 dogs turned out to have early-stage bladder cancer. The screening caught the cancer before symptoms began to emerge and before the dogs’ behavior and health changed. Knapp’s ...

Dogs can be trained to detect bladder cancer by 'smelling' urine, concludes new research published in this week's BMJ. Tumours are thought to produce volatile organic compounds with distinctive ...

Dogs trained to sniff out bladder cancer. By Gaia Vince. 24 September 2004 ... Bladder cancer is a particular risk to people over the age of 65, and men have three times the risk of women.

Each dog had to sniff seven urine samples and lie down next to the one from a bladder cancer patient. The test was repeated eight times for each dog, with new urine samples every time.

Researchers have discovered which dog breeds are more likely to get cancer, ... Terriers have a higher incidence of bladder cancer, he said. A Burmese Mountain is seen in this undated stock photo.

Cancer-sniffing dogs are saving lives 01:20. A dog's sense of smell might be one of his or her best, innate abilities. And an increasing number of researchers are using that nose to help humans ...