Dog’s olfactory system in medicine and human malignant or other diseases

Česká verzia

Authors: D. Šubová; K. Azeem; H. Kollárová
Authors place of work: Lékařská fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, Ústav preventivního lékařství, přednostka: doc. MUDr. Helena Kollárová, Ph. D.
Published in the journal: Prakt. Lék. 2015; 95(2): 52-58
Category: Reviews

Summary

The aim of the article is to discuss question if the dogs and their olfactory systems can detect various kinds of human malignant tumours. These scientific experiments and hypotheses started more than 20 years ago. There are referring studies focused on the topic and overview of their results and success rate of dog’s distinguishing ability, too. In special laboratory, dogs distinguish the scents from breath, tissues or other body fluids, from the cancer patients and healthy controls. The accuracy of detection was significant and does not depend on the phase of cancer or variety of malignity. All around the world the major part of studies are confirming that dogs are able to detect scent of tumour with high significant sensitivity and specificity. Concurrently these part is discussing field of study of electronic nose and using canine olfactory ability for distinguish another diseases.

Keywords:
human cancer – tumour – sniffer dog – canine – olfactory system – scent – dog training – detection

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