
Thomas Gajewski
Thomas Gajewski is the AbbVie Foundation Professor of Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Chicago, a physician-scientist and oncologist pioneering research into using the gut microbiome to fight cancer.
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Aug 20, 2026
Why The Key to Treating Cancer May Be In Your Gut, with Thomas Gajewski
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Paul RandHOST
For those 50% or so that they're not getting a benefit, w- how do you tell them why their body is not responding the way you hoped it would?

Thomas GajewskiGUEST
So, uh, most of the treatment failures are in patients who have, uh, this cold tumor phenotype, meaning the, uh, the good immune cells have not been allowed to enter the tumor microenvironment.

Thomas GajewskiGUEST
And, um, so if they're not there, they can't do their work, right, of, of recognizing and killing tumor cells.

Thomas GajewskiGUEST
And so, um, the, we've spent a lot of time thinking about that, you know, the last 10 or more years, 12 years.
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Paul RandHOST
And, and, and so I guess this, the, the question, does this change or should it change the way that I'm eating? And especially if I'm being treated for cancer, do I need to be thinking, um, I should be h- eating more fermented foods, for example?