In her work as a funeral celebrant, former TV presenter Melanie Kerr has lost count of how many families have told her their loved one died after a diagnosis of bowel or ovarian cancer “came too late”.
It’s why Melanie has teamed up with a groundbreaking charitable trust, K9 Medical Detection (K9MD), which is training eight canine “super-sniffers” for the early, non-invasive detection of cancer.
The Dunedin-based charity was founded in 2018 by Pauline Blomfield, a dog obedience trainer who wanted to harness the incredible innate sense of smell
