From Isobel Thrilling
Liz Bestic reports on dogs sniffing out cancer (4 July, p 34). They aren’t alone. I had half a lung excised due to lung cancer in 2004. It was diagnosed by a young Polish doctor, a locum, who visited me at home and smelled something wrong on my breath. I had no specific symptoms – no cough, bad chest, sore throat or temperature – but felt so unwell I had taken to my bed. She sent me for an X-ray the next day and the cancer was detected early enough for a cure. I hadn’t smoked for over 30 years.
I believe her ability to detect the smell saved my life.
Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK
