Overview
- Queen Camilla, patron of Medical Detection Dogs, hosted a Tuesday reception at Clarence House that brought together supporters, clinicians and trained dogs, with James Middleton attending as a visible backer.
- Live demonstrations showed Bio Detection Dogs identifying disease in samples, including Jodie picking out bowel cancer from urine and Floren trained on prostate cancer.
- Medical Alert Assistance Dogs were highlighted through patient testimony, as Lucy Burls described how her dog Wolfie warns of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome episodes and has reduced medical crises in her daily life.
- Developers presented a prototype “electronic nose” from RealNose.AI for potential scalable prostate cancer screening, with Dr Andreas Mershin noting it currently takes about 10 minutes and dogs still outperform it on every metric.
- Addressing lingering skepticism, the Queen said many visitors leave convinced after seeing the work, and an oncologist who advised the charity described arriving doubtful and departing a convert.