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A British organization, Medical Detection Dogs , has eight dogs sniff out 3, urine samples from National Health Service patients to see whether they can discern who has cancer and who doesn't. Her fox red Labrador, Daisy, caught her breast cancer six years ago when she was It led me to find a lump," Guest remembers.
The tumor was deep in her breast. Her doctors said that by the time she would have felt it herself, the cancer would have been very advanced. Dogs' powerful noses have million sensors, compared with a human's measly 5 million. In addition, dogs have a second smelling device in the backs of their noses that we don't have, called Jacobson's organ.
That double smelling system allows trained dogs to detect cancer's unique odors, called volatile organic compounds. It took humans thousands of years to figure this out. In , doctors at King's College Hospital in London wrote in The Lancet about a woman whose dog persisted in smelling a particular mole on her leg.
That mole turned out to be early-stage malignant melanoma. Over the next 26 years, studies from France to California to Italy have concluded that dogs really can detect the smell of cancer. Researchers in the current British study have set a particularly high bar. They want to make sure dogs are actually smelling cancer and not something else, such as old age or a particular set of symptoms.
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In the study, dogs will circle a carousel holding eight evenly spaced urine samples, one from a cancer patient and seven from patients who don't have cancer. At least one of those seven samples will be from someone about the same age as the cancer patient who had symptoms of cancer but didn't actually have the disease. Guest, whose group is running the study, said that if studies like hers continue to show the power of dogs' noses, the animals might one day be used in conjunction with existing diagnostic tests, not instead of them.
Scientists might also design a machine -- an "electronic nose" -- that mimics a dog's powerful smelling abilities.
Meet the cancer-sniffing dogs. Ulric, a cross between a Labrador and a golden retriever, is a bit of a water baby.
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He loves to get into troughs of water that are left out for cattle and will retrieve his ball from the bottom of a stream. Lucy, a cross between a Labrador retriever and an Irish water spaniel, failed miserably at guide dog school. But she has performed astonishingly well at sniffing out bladder, kidney and prostate cancer. Karry, who is one-quarter curly-coated retriever and three-quarters Labrador, was too excitable to be a medical assistance dog for diabetics, so all that energy is now focused on problem solving.
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She's learning to sniff out prostate cancer. Kiwi, a yellow Labrador, is a former guide dog. She's a fantastic problem solver. George was not the first canine to represent Vanderbilt football.
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The Commodore squad, led by first-year coach Dan McGugin, was proud of their bulldog mascot named Bull. But Bull did not appear to have the courage as George, and was improperly dismissed after an incident. During Thanksgiving week in , Vanderbilt was scheduled to play rival Sewanee in Nashville. During that week this headline appeared in the Tennessean:.
This is the entire Tennessean story printed in on Bull the Vanderbilt football mascot:. Vanderbilt would defeat Sewanee to cap an undefeated season.
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And did anyone think to check the bottom of the coal chute for poor ole Bull? Dan Blake is top row, second from the left. The Tennessean reported on the incident: When Ebony Masterpiece, the Tennessee walking horse which has become the university's mascot, pranced up and down the sidelines, George darted across the field and appeared to challenge him in animal jargon.
During that week this headline appeared in the Tennessean: This is the entire Tennessean story printed in on Bull the Vanderbilt football mascot: The members of the team say they don't care if he never comes back.
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Bull was placed in a pen with a fox terrier of some fighting reputation. The former old Gold and Black mascot is not a full grown canine, sad it was thought it would be about an even proposition to buck him against a smaller fighting dog of reputation. It was thought at first that this was because he did not want to fight an opponent of such comparatively small proportions. He did not want to chow another dog into doll rags without giving the animal a chance for his life.
The fox terrier was not so backward and attacked Bull. In self-defense the bull pup was forced to fight, and he began with some very fierce growls and some terrible-looking grimaces. But it seems that growls and grimaces were is main stock in trade. They were soon changed to yelps and whines.
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Bull tucked his tail and the last few seconds of the scrimmages was a noble effort on the part of Bull to get as far away from the scene of trouble as possible. Whether the canine recognized his disgrace or not may never be known, but it is probable that he did, and that he greatly assisted in helping himself to disappear.
In this case Phillips of Sewanee did not have as much to do with this incident as some might think. He thought it best not to tell the story and pledged two or three others who saw the imitation fight, to secrecy. The only thing he did was to announce the disappearance of Bull on the following afternoon when the squad came out for practice.
It was noticed that Dan was not inclined to go into details, but it was thought this was because of his grief over the loss of the dog. This finally became a conviction and Dan was pressed to tell what it was. He held off for three or four days, but the pressure finally became too strong and he at last told, with tears in his eyes, the story of the disgrace of Bull.