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Fido want some tofu?
Researchers at North Carolina State University say soy may increase the benefits of canine cancer therapy.
Genistein - a molecule in soy shown to be toxic to many cancer cells in humans - was found to kill canine lymphoid cells in a laboratory.
"Humans have been using soy in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy for some time as a chemo potentiator," Dr. Steven Suter, assistant professor of oncology at the university, says.
Researchers hope it will work for canines, too.
The researchers' findings were published in Clinical Cancer Research.
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