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The Faculty of Health & Social Care at The Open University presents this free lunchtime seminar:
Medical Detection Dogs
Developing new methodology to assist medics in the early diagnosis and management of human disease
Dr Claire Guest, animal behaviourist and CEO of the Medical Detection Dogs charity
presents an overview of their ground breaking research
into the canine olfactory detection of metabolic disease and cancer in
humans.
The seminar will cover both sides of the charity’s work; an expanding program of
medical alert assistance dogs, who are trained and partnered to alert individuals with complex health conditions prior to the onset of a life threatening medical emergency, and the
research into cancer
detection by sniffer dogs, (including a live demonstration, by one of the bio detection dogs).
Claire will discuss their current clinical studies;
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a collaboration with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a proof of principle study to determine dogs can detect the breath odour changes associated with early onset breast cancer;
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in partnership with Milton Keynes Foundation Hospital, explores the olfactory detection of prostate cancer from urine samples to proffer the speed and accuracy of canine screening is a significant
improvement on the rates recorded by some traditional medical diagnostic tests.
This inspiring presentation will reveal the potential that trained dogs have to assist in the management of complex health conditions, and expose the challenges faced in the drive
to find a reliable, cheap and non-invasive method for second line screening of early stage cancers.
Date: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Time: 13.00 - 14.00hrs
Venue:
Library seminar rooms 1 & 2, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
All university staff, students and external visitors are welcome. Feel free to bring a (cold) packed lunch with you - we will provide tea,
coffee and water.
For any queries or to book your place, please contact: [log in to unmask]