a day agoNewer study, dogs can detect lung cancer (Photo)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)People have benefited from centuries from the incredible smell of dogs, using hunting noses and search for bombs or illegal substances. Now, a group of Spanish researchers have discovered that dogs are also extremely effective in smelling lung cancer. Spanish scholars at Barcelona Hospital Clinic have done [...]
Spanish scholars at Barcelona Hospital Clinic have made a surprising and pleasant discovery. The species called Blatt, a mixture of bull pit legander, is able to detect the scent of specific substances for lung tumor cells in a person's spirit with a very high degree of accuracy.
The results of the Blaté's work were presented at the European Journal of Cardiac Surgery, published by Oxford University.
“Sputnik Mundo” contacted Dr. Laureno Molins, a coauthor of the study, discovered how the dog Blart proved to be an important assistant to doctors.
It was trained for three to four months to sniff and identify the breath of [the lung] cancer patients with a success rate of 9888x1>, Dr. Molins.
Dog talent can become an important tool in fighting lung cancer, which doctors know is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer when it comes to patient mortality.
Today only about three in 10 persons who have been diagnosed have undergone operations. For the rest, surgery is not possible because the disease has been found too late when it has already spread throughout the body and other organs.
Doctors use various methods to detect tumors, such as excise tomography.
However, these tests often reveal new tumors that are not necessarily nitility, such as pneumonia teeth or the results of living in an urban environment.
“We need tests that will show the tumor is bad”, Dr. Molins.
“For this, there is the PET (Positron Emission Tomography) or lung test, but the feeling of a dog” can help us now, he added.
Blatt's nose has been trained to identify unstable organic compounds present in patient breathing. Each time a person goes out, more than 3,000 such compounds are released. And while it remains unknown which one of them specifically is linked to lung cancer, Blatt is able to detect it. When he finds the smell he is looking for, he bends forward and shows it with his nose.
“If you imagine a [cancerous] knot in the lungs as a blow, a group of cells, it also has a special era”, said Ingrid Ramon, Blatt's coach.
According to Ramon, people can't appreciate these smells because our sense of smell is very weak. But doctors also say that a person can smell differently when he or she reaches the final stage of cancer”, she added./Periscopi/
