Patients with melanoma who reported eating more fiber-rich foods when they began immunotherapy treatment survived longer without cancer growth than patients with insufficient dietary fiber intake, a new study from MD Anderson shows.
Co-senior corresponding authors, Jennifer Wargo, M.D., director of the Program for Innovative Microbiome and Translational Research (PRIME-TR), and Carrie Daniel-MacDougall, Ph.D., director of the Bionutrition Research Core, explain the research.
Learn more: https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/newsroom/2021/12/high-fiber-diet-associated-with-improved-progression-free-survival-and-response-to-immunotherapy-in-melanoma-patients.html
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