
Patients who responded to anti–PD-1 therapy and experienced prolonged progression-free survival had a much greater diversity of gut bacteria.

Patients who responded to anti–PD-1 therapy and experienced prolonged progression-free survival had a much greater diversity of gut bacteria.

In this interview we discuss the effect of the gut microbiome on responses and survival outcomes in metastatic melanoma patients treated with anti–PD-1 immunotherapies.