Key considerations for the experimental training and evaluation of cancer odour detection dogs: Lessons learnt from a double-blind, controlled trial of prostate cancer detection

BMC Urology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Elliker, Kevin R ^a   Sommerville, Barbara A ^a   Broom, Donald M ^a   Neal, David E ^a   Armstrong, Sarah ^b   Williams, Hywel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer detection dogs; Cancer odour; Multiple sample learning; Olfactory memory; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PROSTATE CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERAMENT; URINALYSIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOGS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896131879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-14-22     Document Type: Article

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