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" They&amp;#039;re cute and have said be mans best friend, but now dogs could potentially help us to sniff out cancer.  Dogs at the Medical Detection Dogs charity HQ are being trained to sniff out cancer from thousands of urine samples. The trial, which has so far had a 93% success rate, is currently being used for prostate cancer, but the charity is also hoping to do the same with breast cancer in the future.  And founder of the charity, Claire Guest, knows how important a dogs sense of smell can be in this process. Her Labrador Daisy sniffed out her breast cancer back in 2009.      &amp;#039;She saved my life,&amp;#039; Guest told The Huffington Post UK.  &amp;#039;She became anxious and one day I took her for a walk, opened the boot of my car to let her jump out, but she wouldn&amp;#039;t go. &amp;#039;She kept nudging my chest, which led me to find a lump. &amp;#039;After a few days I decided to go to the GP and get it checked out. I was diagnosed with a very deep-seated cancer and was told by my clinician that had Daisy not drawn my attention to it, it could have taken many years for me to find the lump and the prognosis would have been very poor.&amp;#039; And Daisy&amp;#039;s work didn&amp;#039;t stop there \u2013 she has sniffed over 6,500 samples resulting in detecting over 550 cases of cancer.     During a training session Daisy and the other dogs will try and sniff out cancer from 1mm samples in pots, placed around a metal carousel in a bio-detection lab. If they detect the cancer, which usually only takes them seconds, they are trained to sit in front of the sample and touch it with their nose.  So not just adorable, but pretty clever too! It&amp;#039;s National Dog Day \u2013 here are the cutest pooches in need of a home Dogs hate hugs Get your fix of all things Prima with our twice-weekly newsletter \u2014 sign up below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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