Dogs may become a vital part of cancer diagnoses in the future, according to a new study.
Researchers from the Department of Urology at the Humanitas Clinical and Research Center in Milan found that pups have a success rate greater than 90 percent with detecting prostate cancer, The Independent reported.
For the study, two German shepherds sniffed the urine of 900 men. Of the samples, 360 had prostate cancer and 540 didn't.
Both dogs were successful more than 98 percent of the time, The Independent reported.
These results are promising to the estimated 233,000 of people who were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year in the U.S.
"They offer us further proof that dogs have the ability to detect human cancer. It is particularly exciting that we have such a high success rate in the detection of prostate cancer, for which the existing tests are woefully inadequate," Claire Guest, co-founder of the Medical Detection Dogs foundation in Buckingham, told The Independent.
"Over the years, millions of pounds of NHS funding has been poured into the traditional test methods, yet there has been little improvement in their reliability."
