• The charity Medical Detection Dogs has shown in an initial study that specially trained dogs could detect prostate  cancer from urine in 93% of cases.
  • Medical Detection Dogs was founded in 2008, with co-founder Claire Guest's dog helping her find out that she had breast cancer the following year when her dog continuously prodding her in the chest.
  • They help to improve accuracy of the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test, which has a high tendency of generating false-positives.

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