Gut Bacteria May Bolster Cancer Treatments

March 6 (UPI) -- The list of benefits of "good bacteria" in the digestive tract keeps growing. A study led by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago, and published Friday in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, shows that bacteria that live in the gut can accumulate in tumors and improve the effectiveness of drug treatment. The results, based on experiments in mice, suggest that treating cancer patients with Bifidobacteria -- a type of bacteria that is often found in the gastrointestinal tract of people who are healthy -- might boost their response to CD47 immunotherapy, an anti-cancer treatment that is currently being evaluated in several clinical trials.



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