Gut microbiome may make chemo drug toxic to patients
Leah Guthrie, Sanchit Gupta, Johanna Daily, Libusha Kelly. Human microbiome signatures of differential colorectal cancer drug metabolism. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2017; 3 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41522-017-0034-1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers report that the composition of people's gut bacteria may explain why some of them suffer life-threatening reactions after taking a key drug for treating metastatic colorectal cancer. The findings, described online in npj
