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 ...

Breanna Bortner, from Minnesota, was previously diagnosed with stage 2B triple-negative invasive ductal carcinoma - a type of ...

A young woman’s dog was the first to detect her deadly breast cancer. In June 2023, Breanna Bortner, then 30, noticed her ...

A 30-year-old woman credits her dog for detecting her aggressive breast cancer early, prompting her to seek medical care that ...

Skin 'cancer' is common in dogs and cats, and can range from benign masses which are slow growing and can be removed to cure the condition, to more malignant, invasive masses which require surgery ...

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 ...

Studying dogs with cancer is likely to provide a valuable perspective that is distinct from that generated by the study of human or rodent cancers alone. The value of this opportunity has been ...