A Silent Saboteur of Immunotherapy: Antibiotic Use and Its Impact on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Efficacy, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies.

Cancers (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12984459 · PMID 41827802

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In the fixed-effects model, ABT showed a trend toward increased risk of disease progression (HR = 1.085; 95% CI: 0.995–1.176).

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