Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection

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Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection

At least, for lung and breast cancer. Still unknown is whether they're sniffing out the signatures of cancer, specifically, or if they're detecting general disease indicators.

The dogs correctly detected 99% of the lung cancer samples, and made a mistake with only 1% of the healthy controls. With breast cancer, they correctly detected 88% of the positive samples, and made a mistake on only 2% of the controls.