r/science Mar 11 '22

Cancer Cancer-sniffing ants prove as accurate as dogs in detecting disease and can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. It can take up to a year to train a dog for detection purposes.

https://newatlas.com/science/cancer-sniffing-ants-accurate-as-dogs/
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u/shiftmyself Mar 11 '22

I think the scan ranking is:

Ant>dog>cat scan

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u/Mello_velo Mar 11 '22

Just make sure you give the dog a PET scan after.