Belgian Shepherd trained to detect cancer – answers

questions

1. Which adjective describes the work done by this dog? ‘sniffer’ it is a sniffer dog
2. What is the dog normally trained to do? to find explosive and drugs
3. Which adjective describes the dog’s ability? ‘adept’ ‘the dog is now as adept at identifying prostate cancer…..’
4. What did the dog’s handler think at first? that it was a joke
5. Where had similar experiments been conducted? abroad – overseas, outside of France
6. What is significant about a dog’s sense of smell? it is 200,000 times better than a human’s
7. What is the doctor hoping to develop? an automated test
8. Why would this be important for prostate cancer? because this disease is notoriously difficult to track
9. What is the ultimate goal? to determine that a particular smell represents a particular cancer
10. How accurate was the dog’s identification of the samples? very, 63 out of 66 samples
11. Hoe does the dog identify a ‘positive’ sample? he sits near them
12. What do the doctors then consider about the sample? that it contains cancer cells or molecules linked to prostate cancer