Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine

randomErr writes: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences found out that a scent-trained dog can identify thyroid cancer in human urine samples 88.2 percent of the time. Frankie, a male German shepherd mix identified the presence of cancerous cells in 30 out of 34 samples. The shepherd was only slightly less accurate than a standard thyroid biopsy. This offers the possibility of a cheaper, less invasive approach to diagnosis of the illness said Donald Bodenner, M.D., PhD, the study's senior investigator.

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What would the combined accuracy be?

[Anonymous Coward]

I did not RTFA but I'm curious as to whether both the dog and biopsy tend to fail on the same samples, or if we could approach near perfect accuracy by using both?