Research On Diagnosis Of Cancer Through Dogs

Medical science id progressing day by day. Newer medical equipments and medicines are being developed in the world by scientists. on one side new and latest fatal weapons are being invented to kill humans and on other side more effective medicines are brought to light to save human lives. It is a fact that enigma of human nature is unsolved and is too complicated. During the ancient era the Ayuvedric hakeems used to treat the patients with the help of different animals like leeches were used to get the old blood expelled from the human body or to get stick the minghi fish on vertebral column (back bone) to treat back pain. However, it is for the first time that medical experts are using dogs to seek their help in the diagnosis of cancer. It is a fact that dogs have far more high smelling capability than humans which can be used for diagnosing cancer. Six thousand residents of Japanese town Kanyama are participating in this unique study whether dogs are capable of diagnosing cancer or not. The study is being carried out under the supervision of professor Masao and his colleagues of Nippon medical school. The town has been selected for the study because majority of the people of the town are suffering from stomach cancer. The samples of their urine will be sent to the medical school where dogs will smell the urine samples and if they start barking loudly by smelling any sample then it will be takes as the concerned person is suffering from stomach cancer or is near to catch the disease. However, the diagnosis by dogs will be verified by other tests too to see that whether dogs have diagnosed the disease correctly or not. Professor Masao claimed that his trained dogs have the capability of correctly diagnosing cancer by smelling up to 100 %. It is also noteworthy that dogs have more high smelling power than any other animal, therefore they are used different security departments to detect drugs or blasting materials. There have been conducted experiments in the USA, Germany and Britain during the past two decades to diagnose cancer by dogs through smelling the skin, and urine samples of the persons and it was up to 90 % whereas the concerned person has no apparent symptoms of the disease. However, experts say it takes 4 to 5 years to train the dogs that will cost $ 45,000.