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Faecal Transplants Might Help Boost Cancer Treatment, Study Finds – Gizmodo Australia

Faecal transplants, already being studied as a treatment for colon infections and type 2 diabetes, may also help the body fight cancer, new U.S. government-funded…

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Faecal transplants, already being studied as a treatment for colon infections and type 2 diabetes, may also help the body fight cancer, new U.S. government-funded research suggests. In a small clinical trial, some patients with advanced cancer who received the transplants began responding to treatments that hadnt worked earlier, which either stabilised or shrunk their tumours.
The goal of a faecal transplant is to use a donors stool to reset a persons gut microbiome, the neighbourhood of bacteria…

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