Canines’ Cancer-Sniffing Snouts Showing 90%-Plus Accuracy
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Which is better at detecting cancer, a laboratory or a Labrador retriever?
Consider the talents of Tsunami, a regal-looking dog with attentive eyes and an enthusiastic tail wag for her trainer friends. University of Pennsylvania researchers say she is more than 90 percent successful in identifying the scent of ovarian cancer in tissue samples, opening a new window on a disease with no effective test for early detection that kills 14,000 Americans a year. When found early, there’s a five-year survival rate of over 90 percent.