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Service Dogs: A New Breed of Heroes

By Karolyn A. Gazella

Our canine companions continually remind us of their desire to serve and protect. Some do that as pets, but others make it their profession. Because of their keen sense of smell—which is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than human’s—dogs can be invaluable in searching for things undetectable to the human nose. “They toil daily on our behalf, snuffling out contraband, explosives and human bodies buried beneath tons of collapsed cement,” says Bill Benda, MD, who has written extensively about the healing power of animals.

But science is showing us that these beloved animals have abilities that go beyond airport security and into the field of medicine: “They can also detect covert cancer cells, or predict a hypoglycemic event or epileptic convulsion,” Benda says. Which begs the question: Is it time to put a Lab in the lab?

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Parade Magazine

Pine Street in the HeadlinesThe Pine Street Foundation was recently featured in an article in Parade Magazine.

Click here to read the entire article: “Cancer In America: Sniffing Out Disease”

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Huffington Post

Pine Street in the HeadlinesIn an op-ed in the Huffington Post today, John Robbins writes:

If you want to support an organization fighting breast cancer, you might want to know about the little known but extraordinary Pine Street Foundation. While everyone wants to detect breast cancer as early as possible, the Pine Street Foundation has been developing a remarkable alternative to mammograms.

Click here to read the entire article: “Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets”

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Montel Williams Across America

Pine Street in the HeadlinesOn Friday, December 4th, the Pine Street Foundation was featured on the “Montel Williams Across America” radio show.

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People Magazine: Cancer-sniffing Dogs Could Save Lives

Pine Street in the HeadlinesCancer-sniffing Dogs Could Save Lives

Published in “People Magazine” August 17, 2009

At first glance, cancer researcher Michael McCulloch’s lab at the Pine Street Foundation in San Rafael, Calif., looks predictably humdrum — a computer, a few beakers and some vials. And yet, if you look a little closer, there’s something downright peculiar about the place. Most notably, the water bowls, leashes and the roll of paper towels used for sopping up slobber.

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O, The Oprah Magazine: Sniffing Out Cancer

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Sniffing Out Cancer
by Amanda Robb

This article is from the June 2009 of O, The Oprah Magazine. Click here to read the entire article.

Everyone knows that dogs have great noses. We’ve put them to work detecting explosives, drugs, and missing people. Next assignment: sniffing out cancer.

Tessy, a yellow Labrador retriever, was destined to be a guide dog—she was born at the Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California, after all. But when an infection left her blind in one eye, Tessy had to leave the family business. Thankfully, she still had the asset dogs are famous for—her nose. And with it, she’s found a second career: sniffing out ovarian cancer in women.

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Pine Street Foundation on KQED’s “Quest”

The Pine Street Foundation’s research on the early detection of cancer was featured on KQED’s “Quest” program on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008.

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New York Times: Dogs Excel on Smell Test to Find Cancer

New York TimesDogs Excel on Smell Test to Find Cancer
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Article originally published in the New York Times on January 17, 2006. Click here for the original article.

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.