Certain microbiota enhances the efficacy of many chemotherapies and immunotherapies.

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- Bacteria and cancer treatment efficacy
- Bacteria that promote cancer progression

Gut Microbiome and Cancer

Gut Microbiome and Cancer Treatment Efficacy

"Using subcutaneous and liver metastases models of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and melanoma, Sethi et al showed that antibiotics-mediated suppression of tumour growth involved adaptive immunity. This inhibitory effect was attenuated in Rag1-knockout mice that were deficient in mature T and B cells" ("The role of gut microbiota in cancer treatment: friend or foe?").

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