Dog detects tumor by smelling breath and saves owner: scientists now working on 'electronic nose' to detect cancer
In Kent, England, Inca, a German shepherd, did what no doctor had succeeded to do: by obsessively sniffing her owner Colleen Ferguson's breath, she pointed out a problem that no one knew how to diagnose. The woman, who did not smoke and showed no obvious symptoms, discovered a lung carcinoma the size of a golf ball, thanks to her dog's persistence.
