Study Training Dogs To Detect Prostate Cancer Gets One Paw Closer To A 'Robotic Nose' To Diagnose The Disease, Including Most Lethal Form A study by Medical Detection Dogs, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University combined three current methods of diagnosing the disease for the first time to detect prostate cancer early Larger-scale studies planned to develop a machine olfaction diagnostic tool - a 'robotic nose' - that may ultimately be a smartphone app of the future; MIT developing prototype News provided by Share this article Share this article MILTON KEYNES, England and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New research from a multi-national, cross-disciplinary team of scientists from Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) in the UK, the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johns Hopkins University – and a friendly pair of specially trained cancer-sniffing dogs at MDD – has scientifically validated that a dog's nose may hold the key to prostate cancer detection: a more accurate, non-invasive early diagnostic tool able to differentiate between potentially lethal high Gleason Grade cancers and low-grade, less dangerous cancers.