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"An Alabama woman is joining the fight against cancer by training dogs to sniff out the disease.Laurie Malone will be one of the first dog trainers to be certified in training cancer-sniffing dogs. She and 11 other people will begin this first-of-its-kind training in October in California.Dogs are commonly used to detect explosives, narcotics and missing people, but stories about dogs picking up on their owners' cancer are also pervasive.\u00A0\"Cancer has some particular odors that dogs are picking up that no machines in existence can detect cancer as early as the scenting ability of dogs can,\" Malone said. \"To date, there have been studies, everything from lung to breast to ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, as well.\"On Monday, Malone demonstrated how her dog, Penny, is a master at K9 nose work. Penny detected cartridges containing cotton swabs with a couple drops of birch oil. Though in cancer trials, dogs will sniff actual human samples like breath, blood and urine to detect cancer.On her website, Malone explains how dogs can be an important part of early detection, improving the prognosis for individuals with cancer by catching and treating the disease sooner."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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