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Faecal Transplants Might Help Boost Cancer Treatment, Study Finds
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Syringes filled with stool being prepped for faecal microbiota transplantation. (Photo: Thierry Zoccolan, Getty Images)
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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 hadn’t worked earlier, which either stabilised or shrunk their tumours.