| Literature DB >> 29336431 |
Marie Vetizou1, Giorgio Trinchieri1.
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After the initial success of cancer immunotherapy using immune checkpoint blockers, the challenge is to understand why only a minority of patients respond to the therapy and to increase the rate of response. Three recent papers now report that the gut microbiota modulates the response to anti-PD1 therapy in patients with epithelial cancers or melanoma.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29336431 PMCID: PMC5835771 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2018.12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617