{"id":20309,"date":"2020-02-18T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=303108"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:50","slug":"german-shepherds-detect-fast-growing-form-of-breast-cancer-and-save-their-moms-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/german-shepherds-detect-fast-growing-form-of-breast-cancer-and-save-their-moms-life\/","title":{"rendered":"German Shepherds Detect Fast-Growing Form Of Breast Cancer And Save Their Mom\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dogs can smell 100,000 times better than humans and their powerful noses are saving lives.<\/span>Michael T. Nappier, DVM, DABVP, of the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, said dogs<\/a>, \u201chave up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, versus only about 6 million for us. And the part of their brain dedicated to interpreting these is about 40 times larger than ours.\u201d Dogs are able to detect cancer cells and other diseases because of an odor the diseased cells produce.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Pixabay<\/span>Linda Munkley from Bargoed, UK, has four German shepherds and credits two of them with saving her life. One day, five-year-old named Bea and her three-year-old daughter named Enya started sniffing and bumping Linda\u2019s chest. This behavior was abnormal and at first Linda just brushed it off, but the two females were persistent in their efforts.<\/span>\u201cOn and on this behaviour went so I began checking my chest to see if I could feel any lumps but there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary,\u201d Linda told Wales Online<\/a>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/real fix<\/a><\/span>The behavior continued and so did Linda\u2019s self examinations. Two months later, she discovered a lump in one of her breasts. She immediately made an appointment to have it examined. \u201cI went to the doctors to have it examined and so they analysed it and carried out a mammogram and then confirmed to me that it was a fast-growing form of breast cancer and it had started spreading to my lymph nodes.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/offstocker<\/span>
\n<\/span>Linda started chemotherapy but her dogs continued to sniff and nuzzle her chest until she completed her third round. Then all of a sudden they stopped<\/a> and she hoped it meant the treatment was working. \u201cI had six months of chemotherapy and then had an operation to remove the lump followed by a month of radiotherapy. After the lump had been removed it was analysed which revealed that the chemotherapy had actually killed the cancer cells.\u201d<\/span>\u201cI remembered the moment Bea and Enya had stopped sniffing me and wondered if that had been the exact moment the chemotherapy had been successful at tackling the cancerous cells in the lump.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/real fix<\/span>Linda shared<\/a> with her doctor how her dogs alerted her to the cancer. \u201cMy doctor was amazed and told me that I should go home and thank my dogs because they had saved my life.\u201d Thanks to her loyal pups the aggressive form of cancer was caught early and treated successfully.<\/span>She is still undergoing treatment but hopes to get the all-clear soon. In the meantime, she is so thankful for her beloved dogs.<\/span>\u201cWords can\u2019t describe how grateful I am to the both of them \u2013 what they have done is just astounding and they really have saved my life. It just goes to show how incredible dogs really are.\u201d<\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dogs can smell 100,000 times better than humans and their powerful noses are saving lives.Michael T. Nappier, DVM, DABVP, of the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, said dogs, \u201chave up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, versus only about 6 million for us. And the part of their brain dedicated to interpreting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44332,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions\/44332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}