25 Sep 2017

Study into use of dogs to detect lung cancer

From Afternoons, 1:37 pm on 25 September 2017

Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer death in New Zealand. mainly because it's detected late, when it's already spread to other parts of the body.

A researcher at Waikato university, Dr Tim Edwards has just been given a research grant to look into training dogs to sniff out lung cancer in its early stages.

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