{"id":224939,"date":"2025-11-12T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-the-microbiome-and-a-fiber-rich-diet-help-fight-melanoma"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:23:58","slug":"how-the-microbiome-and-a-fiber-rich-diet-help-fight-melanoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-the-microbiome-and-a-fiber-rich-diet-help-fight-melanoma","title":{"rendered":"How the microbiome and a fiber-rich diet help fight melanoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-microbiome-and-a-fiber-rich-diet-help-fight-melanoma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and <i>Immunity<\/i> (Doherty Institute) have uncovered how the gut microbiota help the immune system fight melanoma, explaining why patients with a fiber-rich diet and balanced gut bacteria tend to respond better to cancer immunotherapies.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.immuni.2025.10.004\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Immunity<\/i><\/a>, shows that molecules produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gut+bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gut bacteria<\/a> upon digestion of dietary fiber can improve the function of cancer-fighting <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a>. The research team, led by the Doherty Institute, in collaboration with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center (Peter Mac) and Monash University, found that these digestive by-products influence melanoma progression by naturally boosting killer T cell function in pre-clinical cancer models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have uncovered how the gut microbiota help the immune system fight melanoma, explaining why patients with a fiber-rich diet and balanced gut bacteria tend to respond better to cancer immunotherapies. The study, published in Immunity, shows that molecules produced by gut bacteria upon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}