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Speaker 1: Tancer detection dogs seem to have made a bit of

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Speaker 1: a breakthrough in Dunedin. They've been sniffing out the lab

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Speaker 1: samples of balal and ovarian cancer and they've actually had

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent success rate. And with us now is

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Speaker 1: Canine Medical Detection CEO Pauline Blomfeld.

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Speaker 2: Pauline hy, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Were you expecting one hundred percent or to that blow

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Speaker 1: your mind?

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Speaker 2: It always blows my mind when I see the dogs working.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, they are absolutely in credit. All we

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Speaker 2: expected a really high result, particularly with Canine Hogan for

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Speaker 2: ovarian cancer because he has been working exceptionally well and

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Speaker 2: when he goes into that test environment we never know

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Speaker 2: what they're going to give us. But spearing in mind,

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Speaker 2: these dogs can check sort of twenty samples and twenty

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Speaker 2: seconds with that one hundred percent accuracy. Absolutely, it blows

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Speaker 2: our mind.

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Speaker 1: Can you monetize this? Is this something that you can

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Speaker 1: roll out beyond the I mean, because these could just

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Speaker 1: be two very special dogs, right.

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Speaker 2: We've got eight very special dogs. But yes, we do

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Speaker 2: select our dogs by genetics. But I guess to get

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Speaker 2: back to your question about rolling out, it's a stage

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Speaker 2: that we work through at the moment. Yes, these dogs

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Speaker 2: are working. They're clearly detecting the odor that's released from cancer,

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Speaker 2: but we're not replacing any current tests. Ultimately, this is

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Speaker 2: the holy grail for us. We are working with scientists

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Speaker 2: to actually I try and identify those markers that the

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Speaker 2: dogs are picking up on, because at the moment, we

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Speaker 2: don't know what the dogs are smelling. We know that

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Speaker 2: the volatiles released from cancerous cells, but we don't know

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Speaker 2: So that's the key. That's the thing that we want

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Speaker 2: to work towards, and that becomes a scalable.

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Speaker 1: I know, dogs can smell a thousand million times whatever

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Speaker 1: better than us, right, sure can we smell cancer too?

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Speaker 2: I believe there's probably a few people. I mean, this

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Speaker 2: is where the companies that create perfumes are always seeking

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Speaker 2: those individuals that have that exceptional olfactory ability. But yes,

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Speaker 2: the dogs, I mean they can detect one to two

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Speaker 2: parts per trillion, so for us humans at their equivalent

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Speaker 2: to one tea spin of sugar and two Olympic size

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Speaker 2: swimming pools some water. You know, yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: how do you thank god I don't.

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Speaker 1: Have that ability? The ay pauline, because that would be

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Speaker 1: awful to be torture walking around sniffing everything. Pauline Blomfeld,

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