We know that dogs have an enormous capacity to detect the odour of a tiny number of odour molecules. For years they’ve been trained to detect cancer in urine for example. They can detect various types of cancer; so refined is their nose and their trainability. The dog is incredibly useful in detecting disease …
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Cats, just like humans and any other animal, can have cancer during their lifetime. Molecularly speaking, cancer in cats develops because something within a single cell of their body went wrong. This is often a change in the cell’s DNA, or a change that affects how well a cell can grow and divide. Once …
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Although, apparently, there are no studies on domestic cats detecting cancer in humans, I believe that they can based upon some straightforward research and an excellent first-hand account. Research does, however, indicate that dogs can detect many types of cancer through odour signatures in a person’s skin, urine, breath, sweat and faeces. THERE ARE …
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An Albany, Oregon woman gives credit to her shelter cat for being alive today after the family cat detected a lump in her breast after jumping on her chest. That lump turned out to be cancer. Michelle Pierson and her husband Will never dreamed when they adopted their cat Mia from the Willamette Humane …
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