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by randop 2913 days ago
This is interesting to see being used in real world. Still wondering what types of cancer it can detect. Maybe throat cancer, who knows.
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I read a few anecdotes that said that nurses who were familiar with cancer patients would subconsciously identify an odor that was associated with them.

Then they would smell it in the wild and be struck with a sudden an anxiety about whether or not they should tell the person to get checked, given the odd nature of the clue.