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Wednesday February 2, 2011

Panda, a Border Collie sniffer dog, checks out samples at the Dogs Against Cancer and For Life Foundation in Hungary. Barnabas Honeczy/AP hide caption

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Dogs Earn More Cred For Sniffing Out Cancer

February 2, 2011 • In the last five years, dogs of different breeds and ages have shown over and over they can smell cancer on the breath and in tissue samples from cancer patients. But scientists are still unsure about what the dogs are smelling.