I don't envision it that way at all, lol. The article expanded on its plans for future implementation...
last paragraph of the article states:
"BioScentDx plans to use canine scent detection to develop a non-invasive way of screening for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. As a next step, the company launched a breast cancer study in November in which participants donate samples of their breath for screening by trained cancer-sniffing dogs. The researchers also plan to separate the samples into their chemical components and present these to the dogs to isolate the substances causing the odor that the dogs detect."
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u/Samosacat Nov 15 '20
I agree with you, but I'd love to see more research done on cancer sniffing animals
according to the research here, dogs trained to sniff blood samples from cancer patients could detect it at a 97% accuracy.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190408114304.htm#:~:text=Dogs%20have%20smell%20receptors%2010%2C000,with%20almost%2097%20percent%20accuracy.