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Healthy gut bacteria can help fight cancer in other parts of the body, UTSW researchers find

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs. 

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