date:Mar 04, 2019
likely to have the therapy halt the growth of or shrink tumors as those on diets low in fiber. Meanwhile, the 40 percent of patients in the study that said they were taking probiotics saw a decrease in their their gut microbe diversity.
A lot of people have perceptions that probiotics will have health benefits, but that might not be the case for cancer patients, said Christine Spencer, a research scientist at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco.
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