Transcutaneous canine breast cancer detection in Tunisia: a pilot study

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Table 8 Summary of previous studies on cancer detection by canines

Cancer type	Study	Odour samples	Detection sensitivity %	Detection specificity %	Percent of correct indications by chance %
Breast	Thuleau et al. 2018 [15]	Skin	90,3	––	1/4
	Mcculosh et al. 2006 [9]	Breath	88	98	1/5
	Gordon et al. 2008 [10]	Urine	22	––	1/7
Ovary	Horvath et al. 2008 [19]	Tissue	100	97.5	1/4
Bladder	Elliker et al. 2014 [22]	Urine	19	73	1/4
	Willis et al. 2004 [8]	Urine	41	––	1/7
	Willis et al. 2011 [18]	Urine	64	56	1/7
Prostate	Cornu et al. 2011 [11]	Urine	91	91	1/6
Prostate	Taverna et al. 2015 [24]	Urine	98	96,4	1/6
Lung	McCulloch et al. 2006 [9]	Breath	99	99	1/2
	Ehmann et al. 2012 [20]	Breath	71	93	1/6
	Walczak et al. 2012 [21]	Breath	79	78	1/2
	Amundsen et al. 2014 [23]	Breath	56–64	8–33	1/6
	Amundsen et al. 2014 [23]	Urine	64–74	25–29	1/6

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