Medical Detection Dogs: Looking for healthy volunteers

Would you like to help in the development of new ways to detect and diagnose urological cancer?

Medical Detection Dogs, along with Milton Keynes University Hospital, are looking for healthy volunteers to provide urine samples for a research study using their Detection Dogs. With their incredible sense of smell dogs can detect the minute odours now understood to be associated with many diseases including prostate, bladder and kidney cancer. This urological cancer study will investigate the ability and accuracy of specially trained dogs to distinguish between urine samples donated by individuals with cancer and non-cancerous conditions.

Sample are also needed from healthy volunteers with no history of urological disease for comparison. This will provide valuable information to assist in the development of new ways to detect and diagnose urological cancer.

Volunteers should:

• be aged 18-40 years
• have no history of cancer or of any urological disease
• have not attended a urology clinic in the past 12 months
• not be undergoing dialysis
• not have been diagnosed with HIV and/or hepatitis
• consider themselves healthy.

Participation is completely voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the study at any time, without giving a reason.

If you would like to participate in this study, please come along to the Juniper and Medlar rooms in The Hub on the 15^th September between 12:00 and 14:00. You will be asked to complete a short health questionnaire, and to provide a urine sample.

If you would like any further information about the research study, please contact:
Stephanie Thorp, Heini Alderman, or Francesca Wright - Tel: 01908 995117

Research and Development, Education Centre,
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
Standing Way, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, MK6 5LD

There is no need to register in advance, please just turn up on the day.