Good NewsCat sniffs out breast cancer, saves owner’s life
When Ester Kacev's cat Buddy kept sniffing and biting under her arm, Kavec took the hint: she booked a mammogram.
The mother of three from Dianella, Western Australia, is now a breast-cancer survivor, alive and well thanks to the stray cat she took in several years ago.
"My kids always say that I rescued that cat and now the cat has saved me," Kacev told the Eastern Reporter.
"I never in a million years thought it would happen to me," Kacev said of her cancer diagnosis. "In fact, I had turned down previous appointments because I felt so well and it wasn’t in the family."
"Then the strangest thing was happening and I had read stories that animals can sniff out illness and my cat kept doing that to me. It was then that I thought maybe I should go for a mammogram and that’s how it was detected," she added.
After surgery and radiation, Kacev went into remission. Buddy the cat no longer sniffs under her arm.
"I’m a private person but if someone reads my story and it helps save at least one life, then it’s all worth it," she told the Eastern Reporter. "I'm not going to let this stop me, I'm one of the lucky ones because they found it and it was caught early."
Kacev will be running in the Mother's Day Classic on Sunday, May 12, with her husband, twin daughters and son to raise money for breast cancer research.
