Tuesday 20 May 2014

Dogs can detect prostate cancer in urine: study

Highly-trained dogs are able to detect prostate cancer in urine with 98 per cent accuracy, according to a study presented May 18 at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Orlando. “This study gives us a standardized method of diagnosis that is reproducible, low cost and non-invasive,” said lead author Dr. Gianluigi Taverna, chief of the prostatic diseases unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, Italy. Read more here.

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