| January
10, 2008
Can Dogs Really Detect Cancer?
Interview
with Sharon Sakson author of
Paws & Effect |
Mike
Carruthers:
Dogs can smell cancer? Exciting new research seems to point that way.
Sharon
Sakson :
The dogs who can find cancer can find it whether it's
barely begun and in stage one or if it's stage four and very serious.Sharon
Sakson, author of the book Paws
& Effect… There's
a Scottish terrier named Kyle who kept licking and bumping his owner's jaw. Finally
she went to the doctor and the doctor took her right to the hospital and she ended
up having to have half her jaw removed because of cancer. And only because this
dog wouldn't stop bothering her jaw did she go to the doctor. One
theory is that cancer has a definite smell and to dogs anyway, it's a terrible
smell. And it doesn't take any special kind of dog to detect this. Also, dogs
seem to be able to smell an epileptic seizure before it happens. Sharon says a
dog trainer in Georgia trains dogs to help people with epilepsy. She
trains dogs so that if a person has a seizure the dog does what's appropriate,
which might be go to get help, it might be bring a bottle of pills. Now what started
to happen is that they saw the dogs suddenly start doing these things BEFORE the
person had the seizure. And that was where the dog trained itself, Ahh I smell
that smell; I'm going to bring the pills. At
somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should
Know.
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