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New microbiome insights could help boost immunotherapy for a range of rare cancers
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New microbiome insights could help boost immunotherapy for a range of rare cancers

by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainThe microbiome can identify those who benefit from combination immunotherapy across multiple different cancers, including rare gynecological cancers, biliary tract cancers and melanoma. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in Australia, and collaborators have identified specific strains of bacteria that are linked...

Solving mystery of rare cancers directly caused by HIV
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Solving mystery of rare cancers directly caused by HIV

by  University of Pittsburgh John Mellors, M.D. Credit: UPMC For nearly a decade, scientists have known that HIV integrates itself into genes in cells that have the potential to cause cancer. And when this happens in animals with other retroviruses, those animals often develop cancer. But, perplexingly and fortunately, that isn’t regularly happening in people living...