Exploring the food-gut axis in immunotherapy response of cancer patients

Figure 3 Potential strategies to shaping the gut microbiota through the “food- gut axis” and enhance immune checkpoint inhibitors’ response. In order to obtain a favourable microbiota modulation, adjunctive therapeutic strategies, as preparative regimens (via prebiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics or dietary supplementation) could be considered as upcoming ways for improving the efficacy of immunotherapy response. PD-1: Programmed cell death protein 1.