Oncologists looking for highly-accurate, but not highly-expensive methods to diagnose lung cancer in patients may need not look any further than their local dog breeder community. That’s because a new study finds that beagles are capable of successfully detecting the disease by scent, a major breakthrough in identifying the specific biomarkers of the disease.
Researchers with the American Osteopathic Association say the dogs’ remarkable accuracy may lead to a safe, affordable, and effective mass cancer screening alternative in the future.