Woman credits her dog for detecting breast cancer

Kron4.com Doctors recommend women start getting regular mammograms at 40 years old to detect breast cancer. In the fall of 2014, a student attending classes at Minnesota School of Business in Rochester learned she had an aggressive form of breast cancer. But how her cancer was first detected is an incredible story. Most dog owners will tell you their dog can do some impressive tricks, but Tara Leonard’s dog, Willow might have saved her life. “I was laying in bed studying for a test, when Willow jumped up on the bed, put her nose to my left side, I told her to get down I was busy studying,” explains Tara. Despite the command to “get down” the Golden Retriever/St. Bernard mix was persistent and jumped back up. Tara noticed this was strange for her usually, well-behaved dog. “She got down on the floor and was sneezing and doing whatever she could, just being weird. Jumped back up on the bed and this time, it was wet slimy and gross and I went to wipe it off and that’s when I felt the lump.” She went to see a doctor as soon as she could, had a mammogram and biopsy and then the diagnosis; invasive ductal carcinoma. Breast cancer...