Antibiotics can interfere with cancer immunotherapies

medicine

Friday March 31, 2023

Regensburg – The administration of antibiotics can influence the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies. This is reported by an international working group together with Hendrik Poeck, senior physician in charge of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine III of the University Hospital Regensburg, in the journal Nature Medicine (2023; DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02234-6). A promising therapy option, which is particularly useful for malignant diseases of the…