A funeral director friend of mine said he can smell cancer on dead bodies and when he goes to a hospital. Sounds like bull. Could it be true?
2006-11-27 02:05:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
If you're sensitive you can get a whiff of it . . . if the concentration is high. Otherwise dogs can smell it.
2006-11-27 02:13:51 · answer #1 · answered by Sublette 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep. I am a cancer RN and I can smell the breath of a person with pancreatic cancer and it is very distinguishable from just normal bad breath.
Also, when a person gets cancer and it starts to rot away the tissue surrounding the tumor, it is a distiguishable terrible odor.
I work on a cancer floor in a hospital, and it does not have a bad odor. It usually smells very clean.
2006-11-27 02:40:27 · answer #2 · answered by happydawg 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I study in a piece of writing contained in the huge apple circumstances that dogs at a California health midsection were examined for smelling maximum cancers and ninety 9% of the time were perfect. that's totally exciting.
2016-11-29 20:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read of research done to train dogs to detect the smell of cancers and other diseases, trying to find a way to detect them early, easily, and quickly. It may be possible for your friend to smell them, but unless he has a very sharp sense of smell, I suspect he's picking up on other cues, and imagining that an odor explains it.
2006-11-27 02:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Months before my diagnosis of Uterine cancer I noticed an unusual, almost acrid smell when I sat down on the commode and on my underwear. After my surgery it was gone.
2015-11-12 09:26:22 · answer #5 · answered by Gerry 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They say that it could be true. I remember a show where they were trying to teach dogs to sniff out cancer on people. Because dogs have a higher scent sensitivity and some dogs are just close to their owners, I think that it is a cool idea.
2006-11-27 02:14:38 · answer #6 · answered by african.violet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought so. When I did my clinicals, I always thought that the cancer floor smelled different from all the other floors.
2006-11-27 02:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by dragonkisses 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have got to say when my husband was ill and when he died there was a strange smell about him as he got worse so did the smell. someone said they thought that people smelled of death when some one was dying of cancer i did not believe it until my late husband.
2006-11-27 08:01:16 · answer #8 · answered by tracey 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
when my husband had cancer (before we knew it), I could smell it. When they removed it, the smell was gone. I hugged my cousin, and told him, to go see if he had colon cancer, he did, had it removed. the smell was then gone. I think its the rotting organs. lately I have been smelling that odor on myself
2014-01-10 17:09:38 · answer #9 · answered by sandeestttn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer has a distinct cancery smell
2006-11-27 02:09:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one on here has explained what it smells like
2014-05-14 02:52:35 · answer #11 · answered by Bd 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋