Dr. Claire Guest reviews the photos stored on her mobile. Suddenly he finds the one of a tanned labrador and stops. "This is my dog ​​Daisy," she shows proudly during one of the breaks of the Better with Pets conference, organized this week in Brussels.

The relationship between Claire and the animal is special. One day the dog began to sniff one of her breasts repeatedly, something that had not done so far. Surprised by the behavior, she checked her breast and found a small cyst. He went to the doctor and, after several tests, he was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now she is fully recovered and believes that the early detection by the bitch was fundamental. He saved his life.

That happened in 2009. Dr. Guest had already been working on the study of how dogs, with 60 times more olfactory receptors than humans, could detect odor changes that can show a diagnosis of cancer. "It all started around 2002. I had read stories about dogs that had smelled melanoma on their owners. More Information