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3D illustration of intestinal microbiome in the digestive tract. [Image: Christoph Burgstedt/Shutterstock]
UTSW Researchers’ Discovery About Gut Bacteria May Improve Cancer Treatments
by Lance Murray | Mar 9, 2023
The researchers discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs. “Now we understand that mechanism much better and, in the future, hope to use this knowledge to better fight cancer," said UT Southwestern's Andrew Y. Koh, M.D.
