Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance on Cancer Care


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"We're living in a time where we don't have any more antibiotics in our body," one expert says.

And that's bad news for cancer patients, according to new research out of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Jennifer Wargo, an expert in the microbiome, says cancer patients who don't maintain a healthy gut are more likely to develop infections, which can lead to more serious problems down the road, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Wargo, whose research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says it's "critical that evidence for effective interventions come directly from the population being impacted to see reduction in these issues."

That's why she's pushing for better nutrition, decolonization, and the modulation of gut microbes in cancer patients, among other things.

In a CDC webinar last week, experts from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Hospital for Sick Children, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Union for International Cancer Control discussed the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance in cancer care.

The CDC says the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections has been linked to a decline in the number of antibiotics prescribed in the US, as well as a rise in the number of

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