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Dogs were first raised at home at least 150 centuries ago.
Since then, the dog {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) humans' best friend. Now, they
have another job—to assist doctors to diagnose(诊断)cancer.
After a long-standing research of smell, a Finnish professor
has said that certain {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (type) of cancer are able to be
detected by their smell, making it possible to train cancer-sniffing dogs {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (help) diagnose the disease.
A professor, Jouko Vepsalainen from the University of
Eastern Finland in Kuopio, has focused {#blank#}4{#/blank#} nitrogen compounds(氮化合物). The compounds increase {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (great) when cancer cells grow in an
uncontrollable way, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (allow) them to be detected, the
Finnish newspaper Karjalainen reported. That's where the dog, man's best
friend, may step in with their keen sense of smell.
According to the news agency, researchers in Finland have
tried to train dogs to do the job, but {#blank#}7{#/blank#} will take a dog months, even years, to
tell the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (different) between sick and healthy
people. “Anyone {#blank#}9{#/blank#} knows how difficult early cancer
detection is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (understand) what an opportunity this
is,” associate professor Anna Hielm-Bjorkman of the University of Helsinki told
the Finnish media.