Man’s Best Friend, Or Colonoscopy?
The Labrador retriever provided the correct diagnosis in 98 percent of the cancer specimens.
By W. Gifford-Jones, MD and Diana Gifford-Jones —— Bio and Archives--March 6, 2011
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“Isn’t it wiser to suffer a little discomfort for a few moments than face the pain of terminal colon cancer?” I’ve lost count of the times I’ve asked this question of patients. But some still prefer playing Russian Roulette with malignancy than submitting to colonoscopy. So is “Fido” an alternative to this unpleasant procedure?
A recent report in the medical journal, Gut, found that a trained Labrador retriever was smarter than doctors in diagnosing large bowel cancer. With a sniff of a stool the trained Fido was able to diagnose this malignancy.
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