It sounds unbelievable, but in the case of a woman in Wisconsin (USA), published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin (USA), it was not a doctor but her pet dog that discovered her stomach pain was cancer through sniffing, according to Times Now News.
Herfel's Siberian Husky often buries his nose in her lower belly and sniffs intently as if something has spilled on her clothes.
The dog often buries its nose in her lower abdomen and sniffs intently as if something had spilled on her clothes.
And after seeing it do that 3 times, she went to the doctor and the doctors diagnosed it as an ovarian cyst and gave her medicine to take.
But the dog continued to sniff her over and over again, then hid behind the closet. The woman finally went to the gynecologist for a check-up, and was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer.
The woman then underwent chemotherapy and had a hysterectomy.
Why can dogs detect cancer?
A year after Herfel’s treatment ended, the dog started acting strangely again. This time, the cancer had returned in the woman’s liver. A year later, the cancer had spread to her pelvic area. The woman is now cancer-free.
The woman finally went to a gynecologist for a check-up, and was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer.
Her dog had a similar reaction when a friend of hers had ovarian cancer and another time when a kitchen remodeler came to her house.
According to a 2021 review published in the BMC Infectious Disease journal , experts have known that dogs have highly sensitive sense organs and their ability to detect odors surpasses that of humans or electronic devices.
According to a 2022 research paper published in the journal Canine Medicine and Genetics , dogs’ powerful olfactory systems help them detect the subtle odor of cancer cells caused by volatile organic compounds — even at the smallest concentrations in the air. Several organizations have also trained dogs to detect the odor of human disease in skin, urine, and breath samples, according to Times Now News.
Source link
Comment (0)