Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of canine olfactory detection of human urological cancer in each of the last three years.
The use of medical detection dogs for detecting human urological cancer is currently at the research stage. For example the Department’s National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network is supporting the delivery of a trial at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, funded by Medical Detection Dogs, of the detection by dogs of urological cancer from the odour of human urine.