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Woman’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained to Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer

The amazing and compassionate staff at the Carson Tahoe Cancer Center shared with us this incredible article. It details a new way of how cancer can be diagnosed earlier…by using our beloved four-legged friends, dogs! By the time ovarian cancer is found, it’s usually too late to save the patient. Buried deep in a woman’s body, it has no telltale signs, and we doctors have no standard tests to diagnose it early. Over 14,000 women die of ovarian cancer every year in the United States, but like many cancers, it has a characteristic odor – one that the common household dog can be trained to detect before it’s too late. At the University of Pennsylvania, using tumor specimens donated by …