Writing in the journal Gut, researchers in Japan say they've trained a dog to detect bowel cancer in humans. Monell Chemical Senses Center Director Gary Beauchamp describes how odor and disease ...

Dogs can be trained to be cancer-sniffing wizards, using their sensitive noses to detect cancerous fumes wafting from diseased cells. This sniffing is noninvasive and could help diagnose countless ...

For the past few decades, researchers have been exploring the possibility that cancer, possibly created by the growth of tumors, actually has a particular odor -- and dogs can pick up on that ...

Your Dog Can Smell Cancer On You: Unusual Sniffs Saved Some Patient’s Lives Seeing her dog sniffing at a particular area of nose repeatedly, she was able to sense some trouble with the spot and ...

Researchers in Germany followed a program developed at the Cleveland Clinic that trained dogs to detect the smell of a waste product of lung cancer. The German dogs can smell your breath and ...

The idea that dogs may be able to smell cancer was first put forward in 1989 by two London dermatologists, who described the case of a woman asking for a mole to be cut out of her leg because her ...

Scientists have shown that some dogs have hundreds of millions of scent receptors, and they're finding new ways to potentially detect different kinds of cancer.

Researchers capitalize on research supporting dogs detecting cancer in breath by creating test that flags organic compounds that could signal breast cancer.

Dogs at University of Pennsylvania's Working Dog Center are trained to sniff out ovarian and bladder cancer, "predict" seizures and detect "superbug" infections ...

Cancer may carry a scent that dogs can smell, a California study shows.

About that same time, a little-known cancer research group in California called the Pine Street Foundation was conducting a study of dogs' ability to smell cancer on a human's breath.