He soothes patients in the waiting room, puts smiles on their faces before an anxious treatment, and makes them forget about cancer: Snoopy, the new "recruit" at the Institut Curie in Paris, an English Setter of about two years old adopted from the SPA, is a dog that also creates links between the carers. "It's a way of bringing a kind of humanity into the hospital," explains Isabelle Fromantin, the nurse-researcher in charge of the team. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES