Our bowel cancer detection dogs are sniffing their way into 2026 - here's Willow, Jodie and Rosie at work. We believe that information learned from these ladies and their colleagues about the odour of bowel cancer could help deliver an accurate, rapid and non-invasive test for early diagnosis that would be offered to clinicians to use alongside existing diagnostic methods. https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk/colorectal-cancer The Open University The Open University: STEM Hull University Teac

Every week our team of bowel cancer detection dogs are in the training room learning the odour of the disease to help develop a faster, non-invasive and accurate method of diagnosis. We're training them using urine samples as the stigma and embarrassment of providing poo samples can be a barrier to some people getting screened. The dogs are presented with 2ml samples in a 4-position setup. Each line will either contain one bowel cancer positive sample alongside three negative control samples or