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One of my pups is in a home where she is a medical alert dog. That means she gets to go to work in the doctor's office with her owner. She'll get up, walk out from behind the receptionist's desk, and lay her nose on the point where there is cancer, anytime a patient with cancer comes into the office.
Since the doctor is not a cancer treating doctor, that is never why the patient is in his office, which can make it a bit awkward. But so far she has been 100% correct when she indicates that there is cancer.
She's been trained how to alert, but she is an asthma alert dog, so no reason for her to alert on cancer. I think she just can tell that something is really wrong and that she should let her owner know about it.
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