Many people don’t realize that the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi residing within the gastrointestinal tract — collectively called the gut microbiome — are connected to overall health, and specifically to cancer.
Manipulating the gut microbiome to produce “beneficial” commensal microbes, which protect the host from pathogens and can boost immune responses, among other things, could potentially help patients respond better to cancer drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy.
To that end, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new dietary fiber formulation that improves the potency of immunotherapies against cancer by modulating the gut microbiome...
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