Dr. Arthur Frankel, chief of medical oncology and the Arlene and Mayer Mitchell Chair in Medical Oncology at the University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute, presented September's Med School Café lecture, "The Gut Microbiota and Cancer Immunotherapy."
During the talk, Dr. Frankel discussed how specific gut bacteria or probiotics can enhance cancer immunotherapy by stimulating dendritic cells leading to more tumor cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
