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Bacteria residing within tumor cells can boost cancer immunotherapy – News-Medical.Net

Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost from an unexpected direction: bacteria residing within tumor cells.

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Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost from an unexpected direction: bacteria residing within tumor cells. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and their collaborators have discovered that the immune system “sees” these bacteria and shown they can be harnessed to provoke an immune reaction against the tumor.
The study may also help clarify the connection between immunotherapy and the gut microbiome, explaining the findings of previous research that the…

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