Could dogs be better than medical devices at detecting cancer?

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Dogs in a small Japan town are being trained to detect stomach cancer through their scent to try to combat the high rates of stomach cancer in the area, according to media reports.

The small 6,000-resident Japanese town of Kaneyama has high rates of stomach cancer and mayor Hiroshi Suzuki has taken to a sniffer dog research program to hopefully improve the accuracy of cancer screenings.

Suzuki and medical school professor Masao Miyashita conducted a research program in the town that involved dogs sniffing out cancer from test samples.

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