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Posted 25 November 2021 AM
Australian researchers have found a common medication used to treat reflux, heart burn and ulcers could lessen the effectiveness of lung cancer immunotherapy drugs.
A study by Flinders University, published in Nature's British Journal of Cancer, investigated the impact of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) on patients undergoing treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer, accounting for 85 per cent of cases.
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