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My sister worked in urology. She could smell bladder cancer. She would collect the sample, catch a whiff, recognize the sharp scent, and then confirmation from
by sethammons 3y ago
My sister worked in urology. She could smell bladder cancer. She would collect the sample, catch a whiff, recognize the sharp scent, and then confirmation from the lab. She never told patients, but she would tell the doctor, "that one has cancer." It is wild that she can do that; they have dogs that do it.
Similarly, a human smell factoid is humans are more sensitive to the smell of petrichor (fresh rain on a dry area) than sharks are to blood!
- morkalork 3y agoI've heard the same about c. difficile
- dogmatism 3y agoyeah, don't have to be a super-smeller for that one!
- nn3 3y agoI assume there are various variants of bladder cancer depending on what mutations caused the cancer. Is it more likely that she could smell some particular common variant?