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Highly-trained dogs’ olfactory system for detecting biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy

  • Gianluigi Taverna EMAIL logo , Lorenzo Tidu , Fabio Grizzi , Brian Stork , Alberto Mandressi , Mauro Seveso , Giorgio Bozzini , Paolo Sardella , Giuseppe Latorre , Giovanni Lughezzani , Nicolò Buffi , Paolo Casale , Girolamo Fiorini , Massimo Lazzeri and Giorgio Guazzoni

Corresponding author: Gianluigi Taverna, Department of Urology, Ospedale Humanitas Mater Domini, Castellanza, Via Gerenzano 2, 21053 Varese, Italy, E-mail:

Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

Research funding: None declared.

Employment or leadership: None declared.

Honorarium: None declared.

Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2015-7-26
Accepted: 2015-8-26
Published Online: 2015-9-24
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

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