Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

Future indications and clinical management for fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in immuno-oncology

R Jamal, M Messaoudene, M de Figuieredo… - Seminars in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The gut microbiota has rapidly emerged as one of the “hallmarks of cancers” and a key
contributor to cancer immunotherapy. Metagenomics profiling has established the link …

Randomized placebo-controlled, biomarker-stratified phase Ib microbiome modulation in melanoma: impact of antibiotic preconditioning on microbiome and immunity

IC Glitza, YD Seo, CN Spencer, JR Wortman… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Gut-microbiota modulation shows promise in improving immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB)
response; however, precision biomarker-driven, placebo-controlled trials are lacking. We …

Fecal microbiota transplantation as a cancer therapeutic

R Stoff, Y Wolf, B Boursi - The Cancer Journal, 2023 - journals.lww.com
For decades, cancer research and treatment focused on the cellular level, viewing cancer as
a genetic disease of cell transformation. In the era of chemotherapy and radiotherapy …

The Microbiome in Advanced Melanoma: Where Are We Now?

DD Fortman, D Hurd, D Davar - Current oncology reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes recent data linking gut microbiota
composition to ICI outcomes and gut microbiota-specific interventional clinical trials in …

Two Cases of Durable and Deep Responses to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition-Refractory Metastatic Melanoma after Addition of Camu Camu Prebiotic

SA Pang, A Elkrief, MP Capella, WH Miller Jr - Current Oncology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Camu camu (CC) is a prebiotic that selectively stimulates growth and activity of beneficial
gut microbiota. Work in murine models demonstrated that castalagin, the active compound in …

Microbiota and their metabolites potentiate cancer immunotherapy: Therapeutic target or resource for small molecule drug discovery?

P Du, J Jing, X He - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence has proved that microbiota is not only the target of small molecule
drugs but also an underexplored resource for developing small molecule drugs. Meanwhile …

Can gut bacteria boost cancer treatments

Z Levy - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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trend coincided with an explosion of interest in immunotherapies. These drugs have had …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial allies: Personalized probiotics and their role in tailoring cancer immunotherapies

T Chowdhury, Z Rushni, H Anjum, KR Mouree - Cancer Plus, 2024 - researchgate.net
The human microbiome plays a pivotal role in immune modulation, and its influence on the
development and progression of cancer has gained increasing recognition. Based on the …

[PDF][PDF] Targeting Gut Microbiota in Cancer Therapy

N Yang - 2023 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Our knowledge of the complex interactions between the gut microbiome and the numerous
mechanisms by which they affect health and illness has greatly increased. Recent evidence …