Anné Verhoef
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And that helps to go be more efficient in the fight against cancer.
Yeah, that's remarkable, actually.
This is a bit of a long story, but I was a postdoc back in 2015 and 16 when I initially came up with this idea.
And that's because I trained as a microbiologist, then immunologist, and I was working on a different project.
And the idea in that project was,
what is it that's a good biomarker for immune response?
When I was doing the literature review, I stumbled upon this new data that was coming up showing that there is difference in the shape or composition of the microbiome in first animals, in the animal studies, and then patients who are responding better to treatment.
And that gave me an idea instantly, which at the time was very, you know, very out of the box, a bit crazy.
And that was microbiome, it's
It's something that's living in our body.
It's malleable.
We can change it.
And I was like, we've been changing the microbiome forever, but why not do it in the context of cancer treatment?
You can change some of these microbiomes through exercise.
You can change it through diet.
You can change it through, effectively, antibiotics, which harms the microbiome quite a bit.
But you can also change it through FMT.
And we have been doing FMT here in Canada, specifically for patients who have C. diff infections for many years.
That was the initial idea for me to go and talk to my colleagues in the infectious disease department saying that, can we do this in cancer patients?
And they were like, wow, nobody has asked us to do this in cancer patients.
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