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Puppy love: Study tests power of dogs against cancer

Patient Bobby Harris plays with Swoosh, a miniature Pomeranian, that visits Children's Hospital with its owner and volunteer Michelle Thompson.
Cancer patient Bobby Harris plays with Swoosh, a miniature Pomeranian, during a visit to Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Bobby, 7, was diagnosed with meduloblastoma, a brain cancer. The hospital is one of five nationwide to join a clinical trial tracking the effects of therapy dogs on the children, their families -- and the animals themselves.Vanderbilt University