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President Biden is known to be a lover of dogs \u2013 but did he recently give canines more credit than they deserve?<\/p>\n
“Dogs may help cure cancer. It\u2019s not a joke,” Biden told reporters Tuesday during a visit to a cancer hospital in Ohio this week.<\/p>\n
“Dogs may help cure cancer. It\u2019s not a joke.”<\/p>\n
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\n President Biden speaks during a tour of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Tuesday on the campus of the Ohio State University Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (Associated Press)\n <\/p>\n
More precisely, dogs have been credited with helping to detect cancer in humans through their sense of smell, and to alert patients and medical workers. But whether that equates to helping “cure” cancer is a topic that drew some Twitter reactions.<\/p>\n
Some noted that Biden\u2019s seeming overstatement didn\u2019t attract the same media scrutiny as some past health-related comments made by former President Trump.<\/p>\n
“Remember when every[one] took trump as serious as can be when he said injecting bleach can cure covid,” one Twitter user wrote. “let\u2019s all have that same energy toward Biden saying dogs may help cure cancer\u2026.some studies suggest they can detect blood cancer in legs, but that is farrrrrrr from curing joe.”<\/p>\n
“Trump: light rays may cure viruses. Media: 25th Amendment, he\u2019s gone mad,” another Twitter user wrote. “Biden: dogs can cure cancer. Media: Fact check TRUE! Hero!”<\/p>\n
Another commenter asserted that Biden was relaying old news.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019ve been training dogs to smell cancer in people and for years,” user “Zach” wrote. “Read a book.”<\/p>\n
As Biden continued his comments to reporters at the James Cancer Hospital at the Ohio State University in Columbus, he spoke about how dogs detect cancer in humans.<\/p>\n
“Dogs are able to \u2026 They\u2019re using dogs now \u2026 because their olfactory glands are 400 times what a human is \u2026 to smell cancer in people\u2019s legs and people\u2019s bodies. It\u2019s not a joke. It\u2019s a fascinating thing,” Biden added.<\/p>\n
Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015, has pledged to make the fight against cancer a key focus of his administration. <\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Biden said he was “optimistic” that lawmakers from both parties would help make “significant strides” in advancing cancer research in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Brooke Singman contributed to this story.<\/i><\/p>\n