Dogs Detect Cancer?

[Rapture]

Carol Witcher says she knows it sounds crazy, but she swears that her dog, Floyd Henry, discovered the cancer in her breast in 2008.

"When he sniffed me, he kind of turned back and really pushed into my right breast, real hard," she said. "He started sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, sniffing."

It took four days of nudging and nipping by the 8-year-old boxer before Witcher went to a doctor.

"He pushed real hard for one shot. ... Then he looked at me straight in the face, took his right foot and began to paw my right breast. And I thought, 'This is not good,'" she said. "I knew instantly that there was an issue."
Witcher's stage-three cancer required surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

"Her type of cancer was rather large in her breast," said Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola, a breast surgical oncologist at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. "I absolutely believe that the dog saved Miss Witcher's life."

Here's the article itself : http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Cancer...pounds-breath-signal-breast/story?id=13452475

I thought this was an amazing article to share. I always thought dogs were smart...but this dog literally saved its owner's life. Granted, this lady's cancer was quite large, its interesting how the dog knew and wouldn't let up about it.

 

[Rorolina Frixell]

I've heard of similar cases where dogs have been able to detect cancer, it's really quite an interesting ability to have imo, if it's ever proven for a fact that dogs can do that.

 

[Squid]

I have heard this story and I think it is really amazing! I think it is very possible for dogs and many other animals to detect cancer! Another reason why animals are wonderful creatures!

years ago I read an article about a tame dolphin that helped save cancer too by nudging at a ladies stomach

 

[Davey Gaga]

Cancer's a genetic mutation that causes your cells to keep growing and growing with no "off" switch. Unless the mutation causes the production of chemicals, which radiate from the body, and can bind to receptors in the nose of another animal...I doubt it's true.

Seems more like a coping mechanism to me. "My dog saved my life...I'd be dead if he didn't tell me" sounds a lot better than "my body's fucked".

 

[Ohri-Jin]

Well I heard dogs can detect other aillments as well..not just cancer so there must be something that enables dogs to detect defections..

And maybe not just by nose but by some other means..I dont even think they can smell beyond skin..