送交者: Latino2 于 2006-1-17, 12:24:17:
这个用处大, 昏昏别养羊牛了，养条狗随时检查，黑心烂肺了及时给组织上汇报。
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. In the small world of people who train dogs to sniff cancer, a little-known Northern California clinic has made a big claim: that it has trained five dogs - three Labradors and two Portuguese water
dogs - to detect lung cancer in the breath of cancer sufferers with 99 percent accuracy. The study was based on well-established concepts. It has been known since the 80's that tumors exude tiny amounts of alkanes and benzene derivatives not found in healthy tissue. Other researchers have shown that dogs, whose noses can pick up odors in the low parts-per-billion range, can be trained to detect skin cancers or react differently to dried urine from healthy people and those with bladder cancer, but never with such remarkable
consistency. The near-perfection in the clinic's study, as Dr. Donald Berry, the chairman of biostatistics at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, put it, "is off the charts: there are no laboratory tests as good as this,
not Pap tests, not diabetes tests, nothing."
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