Article 5DRQX Faecal transplants could help patients with form of skin cancer

Faecal transplants could help patients with form of skin cancer

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Nicola Davis
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Only 30-50% of melanoma patients given immunotherapy respond to it but research suggests gut could help

Faecal transplants could help patients with a dangerous form of skin cancer respond to immunotherapy, research suggests.

Faecal transplants involve stool and the microbes it contains being taken from one individual and introduced into the gut of another person.

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