Nosy Dogs Help Inventors Create Laser Cancer Detector

ipt type="text/javascript">the exhaled breath of cancer patients.
Dogs have long been accepted as man’sIn a study published two years ago, it was found
best friend. But nosy ones have providedthat dogs identified breast and lung cancer
inspiration to a laser research team working onpatients with accuracies of 88% and 97%,
early cancer detection methods to devise arespectively by smelling breath samples.
breathalyzer-type tool that could significantlyIt has been proven elsewhere that gas-phase
improve survival rates for suffering millions.molecules are uniquely associated with cancer but
Researchers at University of Oklahoma arethe team will use nanotechnology to improve laser
reportedly working to create a sensor to detectperformance and shrink laser systems, which
bio-marker gases exhaled in the breath of awould allow battery-powered operation of a hand
person with cancer, picking up on earlier studiesheld sensor device.
showing that dogs can detect cancer by sniffing