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Researchers from the UF Health Cancer Institute have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubles the response to lung cancer immunotherapy treatment in mice and can now be made into a drug for testing in humans. The findings, published in Cell Reports Medicine, could have widespread clinical impact as a combination therapy…

While lung cancer mortality in the United States has declined significantly since 1990, incidence trends have been more nuanced. New lung cancer cases have fallen in men since the mid-1980s and in women since the mid-2000s, declining annually by 3.0% and 1.4%, respectively, from 2012 to 2021