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Could your gut microbes hinder your cancer treatment? A new first-in-human trial investigates

  • Written by Diwakar Davar, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Gut microbes in the small intestine are essential for good physical and mental health. By Kateryna Kon/shutterstock.com

Could the poop of some cancer patients hold the key to treating certain cancers in all people?

What does cancer have to do with poop? In the past few years, researchers around the world, including us, have realized that the gut...

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