Domestic animals serving the health of people. Dogs can detect prostate cancer by sniffing urinary samples of patients, which will avoid the more than 18,000 biopsies that are carried out in Spain in patients who do not need them.

Thus, explained Thursday, the Principal Investigator of the Joint Research Unit on Nanomedicine and Sensors of IISLAFE and doctor of the hospital La Fe, Dr. Ruiz Cerdá, who leads this project with dogs to improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer and which is There is an exhibition.

The curator of Universal Health, Carmen Montón, has also attended the exhibition of the work done by Yuka, a copy of Border Collie trained at the Center for Cancer and Canine Olfactory Detection (CDOC), which has shown its progress towards Detect urine samples with prostate cancer. More information.