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Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer: More Than Just a Gut Feeling.

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Development of pancreatic cancer in spontaneous murine models is associated with enrichment of specific strains of gut and intratumoral bacteria that induce a tolerogenic immunosuppressive microenvironment favoring cancer progression and… Click to show full abstract

Development of pancreatic cancer in spontaneous murine models is associated with enrichment of specific strains of gut and intratumoral bacteria that induce a tolerogenic immunosuppressive microenvironment favoring cancer progression and resistance to immunotherapies. Ablation of the microbiome with antibiotics reshapes the tumor microenvironment, inducing T-cell activation, improving immune surveillance, and increasing sensitivity to immunotherapy in established tumors. Cancer Discov; 8(4); 386-8. ©2018 AACR.See related article by Pushalkar et al., p. 403.

Keywords: cancer gut; gut feeling; pancreatic cancer; immunotherapy pancreatic; cancer

Journal Title: Cancer discovery
Year Published: 2018

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