Cancer sniffing dog

CHIBA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2010 in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, shows a 9-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine and Yuji Sato, head of St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Center in Minamiboso. According to researchers at the center and Kyushu University, Marine was able to distinguish between cancer patients and healthy persons with at least 90 percent accuracy by sniffing breath and other biological samples.

• Product Code
• ILEA001156289

• Registered date
• 2011/1/29 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2011 Kyodo News

• Media size
• 1303 × 1637 pixel

• Resolution
• 240 dpi

• Deployment size
• 536.58(KB)*

• Special instruction

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