Professor Luke O'Neill

So well done to Larry for recommending it.

So the bottom line is some bacteria are bad.

They increase the risk of cancer.

Get rid of them.

Helicobacter being the

Great example.

However, others are good and those good bacteria will increase your chances of responding to anti-cancer therapies, especially immunotherapy, which gets the immune system going.

The immune system can see the bacteria that are there.

The ones that are beneficial then are making stuff that further boosts the immune response against the tumor.

increasing overall responsiveness and accelerating that process.

So a very exciting frontier in cancer research.

The science of cancer and bacteria could give rise to all kinds of benefits down the line.

And lots of companies are jumping on this and trying to improve.

the response to things like immunotherapy through the bugs in your gut.

So there you have it.

That is the science of bacteria and cancer.

And thanks as ever for listening.

And thanks to Larry Riley for recommending that one.

Great one, Larry.

Thank you.