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György Horvath Department of Oncology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden, gyorgy.horvath@oncology.gu.se

Gunvor af Klinteberg Järverud Department of Oncology, Swedish Working Dog Club, Kode, Sweden
Sven Järverud Department of Oncology, Swedish Working Dog Club, Kode, Sweden
István Horváth Department of Oncology, Hungarian Working Dog Club, Dunaszekcsö, Hungary
The high mortality rate associated with ovarian carcinoma is mainly owing to late diagnosis. It is thus essential to develop inexpensive and simple methods for early diagnosis. Papers on canine scent detection of malignancies such as melanoma and bladder, lung, and breast cancer have recently been published in peer-reviewed journals, indicating a new diagnostic tool for malignancies.

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“The use of canines, Canis lupus var. familiaris, in law enforcement is widely accepted; however, there are few peer-reviewed studies confirming their accuracy and reliability. . . . → Read More: Analysis of uniqueness and persistence of human scent

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“This website is a work in progress and is subject to change, but my intention is to first outline the ways in which knowledge about the relations between events is gained. Then explain what discrimination training really involves, what animals are learning during the course of discrimination training, and offer a user friendly, applied . . . → Read More: K-9 scent discrimination

Internet Websites and Lists devoted to tracking and tracking support.

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How tracking is like driving a stick shift

When you begin tracking it is like the first time you drove a car with a standard shift in that you had to think about pushing in the clutch and pressing the gas just enough so the car will move forward smoothly. The reason you didn’t observe what . . . → Read More: tracking anecdote

Considerations to the Process of Increasing the Success Rate of Scent Discriminating HoundsThe hound’s ability to trail is not a matter of nature vs. nurture or genetics vs. training it’s a dynamic process of the contributing elements coevolving from moment to moment. For example: multicomponent determinants such as, levels of health and fitness, the strength of the hounds ability and desire to follow his nose, his desire to learn, the shared task environments (the handlers abilities, scenting conditions, or terrain), and the way in which circumstances have been put together to facilitate coherence between the hound’s understanding, ability, and the environment. Continue reading Increasing the success rate of scent discrimination