New research shows that fecal transplants may boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors.

I knew I was kind of a guinea pig, but the only other option was staying at home, and I wasn’t going to make it,” Tim Story ...

Highly experimental — and with no guarantee of success — the trial involved getting a so-called fecal transplant from a patient with advanced cancer who had been completely cured by immunotherapy.

Clostridioides difficile infection is a major healthcare-associated infection, causing significant morbidity and mortality, ...

After surgery and chemotherapy failed to eliminate his colon cancer four years ago, Mr Story joined a clinical trial for a highly experimental treatment: fecal transplant. He was to be given a ...

The process, called fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), involves taking stool from carefully screened healthy donors, processing it in the lab, and creating tasteless, odourless capsules ...

Since the FDA’s approval of the first fecal transplant pills in 2023, many experts are hopeful that adapting it and similar innovations could help treat particularly resistant cancers.

Calling the trial the "world's first," Canadian medical experts aim to use fecal transplants to improve pancreatic cancer outcomes.

One therapy that has proven effective, Bisanz said, is a fecal microbiota transplant, which is designed to restore a healthy balance of bacteria in the gut. However, it's not without risks.