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Re: Dogs as Cancer Detectors
Barbara, I absolutely believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that dogs can smell cancer! I have a toy poodle and a Dogue de Bordeaux. (Mastiff) Both my dogs prior to my dx kept sniffing my right leg and upper right side. Drove me crazy! They never had done that before...it was constant...every chance they got. I was always telling them to quit. Never the left side...always the right.
Then later I find out I had bc on the right side...and a bone mass in right femur. Coincidence...no...I just don't believe that. Also I'd like to note...after I had surgery to remove mass in breast the dogs both quit sniffing me. To this day if they start sniffing around me I start to panic...I really believe they can smell it. I watched a show on animal planet that showed a standard poodle that could detect cancer...he was trained for it...but I'm sure it came pretty natural to him.
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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