Dogs Can Detect Lung Cancer With 97 Percent Accuracy
In Brief
- The Facts:Early
detection provides the best opportunity for lung cancer survival;
however, lung cancer is
difficult to detect early because symptoms do not often appear until later stages. Dogs were able to help solve that issue. - Reflect On:Why do we use animals for experiments? Unless they are willing and have a loving home and are provided for, animals should never be used as lab rats or for scientific purposes. What makes us think we have the right to do that?
Animals
are a precious gift to humanity, and we have so many lessons to learn
from them. If you were an empathetic, benevolent alien looking down on
planet Earth, no doubt you’d be heartbroken at and terrified of the way
we treat animals. We slaughter them by the billions, destroy their
homes, experiment on them, and worse. That being said, the ‘good’ side
of humanity loves animals, and there are a lot of activist efforts out
there that are speaking up for those who do not have a voice, not to
mention the ever growing movement promoting a plant-based diet. We are
making progress.
Another important point regarding
animals is the fact that we know so little about them. We think we know,
but the truth is we don’t know, and there is so much more to discover,
especially with regards to certain abilities they may possess like
clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, and other types of extra-sensory
perception that human beings may have dormant within them as well.
I recently came across a study
regarding three beagles successfully showing that they are capable of
identifying lung cancer by scent, which is the first step in identifying
specific biomarkers for the disease. The researchers hypothesized that
their abilities may lead to the development of a new type of cancer
screening method that is fairly inexpensive. Although we still need
more research on the factors in our environment that are causing cancer
in the first place, this is still great to see.
However, it’s only great if these
animals are not being used solely for the purpose of study and are
living happy and healthy lives because, as you may not know, beagles are
the dogs most commonly used for scientific experiments, which are cruel
and inhumane. At the end of the day, animals should not be used for
such purposes. They are here as our companions, as part of our human
family.
These dogs were able to tell the
difference between blood serum samples that were taken from patients
with malignant lung cancer and health controls with, as the study points
out, 97 percent accuracy. The double blind study was published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
Thomas Quinn, the lead author of the study and professor at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, said,
“We’re using the dogs to sort through the layers of scent until we
identify the tell-tale biomarkers. There is still a great deal of work
ahead, but we’re making good progress.”
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Again, I can’t help but wonder: Do these
dogs have families? Are they being loved and cared for? Or are they
simply being used for lab experiments? The thought of that is
heartbreaking, and it makes me not even want to support or write about a
study like this, but I couldn’t find any details about the lives of the
dogs.
It sounds like they are simply ‘lab
rats,’ given the description of the study, but again, we don’t know.
They were led into a room with blood serum samples at nose level. Some
samples came from patients with non-small cell lung cancer; others were
drawn from healthy controls. After sniffing a sample, the dogs sat down
to indicate a positive finding for cancer or moved on if none was
detected.
“Samples from 10 donors (6 women and 4 men) were used in the testing phase. Their ages ranged from 26 to 80 years (mean, 58.2 years). The samples from female donors (mean age, 64 years) came from 3 black women, 2 white women, and 1 Hispanic woman. The samples from male donors (mean age, 49.5 years) came from 2 black men, 1 white man, and 1 man of mixed race. Canine No. 1 indicated a positive sample on 10 of the 10 cancer samples and 1 of the 40 control samples during his test runs. Canine No. 2 indicated a positive sample on 10 of the 10 cancer samples and 0 of the 40 control samples during her test runs. Canine No. 3 indicated a positive sample on 9 of the 10 cancer samples and 2 of the 40 control samples during her test runs. (From study).”
A Few Words About Cancer
I often become frustrated at the
bombardment of “cancer awareness” advertisements, or when I see the
Heart & Stroke Foundation serving processed meats at their fund
raisers. In many cases, the companies raising money for cancer research
are putting out products that are causing the problem in the first
place. Why do we constantly raise money for cancer research and become
so emotional and “patriotic” about ‘finding a cure’ and ‘fighting
cancer’ without ever acknowledging the causes of cancer? Why do
we see advertisements of cancer patients fighting cancer in order to
entice us into donating? Why do people proudly fight cancer and go
through conventional treatments without ever being aware of alternative,
more successful and effective treatments? What is going on here?
When it comes to cancer awareness, all of us should really be
tweeting and posting about environmental pesticides, electromagnetic
radiation, processes foods and meat, unhealthy lifestyles, sugar,
emotional baggage, trauma, stress, and several other factors that are
clearly causing cancer.Why is it that there are only a couple of accepted treatments for cancer that oncologists are legally able to recommend?
There are so many head-scratchers when it comes to cancer, and any cancer awareness efforts should be bombarded with ‘f**ck glyphosate,’ and things of that nature. That would be REAL cancer awareness.
The Takeaway
Animals are not to be used as experiments, but I wanted to present this info simply because, as I mentioned earlier, there are so many amazing, good, positive things about them. Their abilities go far beyond what we know, and when it comes to dogs in particular, they are nothing but of service to others. If you have a dog, you know what I am talking about, and in many cases they already know things about you and your biology that you may not be aware of, unless you are really in tune with them.Help Support Collective Evolution
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