Fecal microbiota transplants help patients with advanced melanoma respond to immunotherapy

ScienceDaily
Feb 4, 2021, 2:40 pm92 pts
For patients with cancers that do not respond to immunotherapy drugs, adjusting the composition of microorganisms in the intestines -- known as the gut microbiome -- through the use of stool, or fecal, transplants may help some of these individuals respond to the immunotherapy drugs, a new study suggests.

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