https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/fu-aor081620.php
News Release 16-Aug-2020
Flinders University
The over prescribing of antibiotics is reducing survival rates in patients with urothelial carcinoma and it needs to be stopped to avoid the serious risk posed by resistant bacterial infections, according to a new medical study.
By analysing data collected within clinical trials on a common immunotherapy treatment called atezolizumab, cancer researchers at Flinders University have found antibiotics are consistently associated with worse survival rates in patients with urothelial carcinoma.
Clinical Pharmacology Dr Ashley Hopkins, from the Precision Medicines Group, says the study's findings suggest antibiotics may specifically reduce the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
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