Fecal transplants cured the intestinal cancer of the football coach in Phase 3 when Kimio could not be

A high school football coach in Mississippi has finally responded to the end area of ​​his cancer than special, experimental treatment.

Tim Story was diagnosed at 49 with stage 3 cancer of the small intestine after noticing strange pain on its sides. Two years and some challenging rounds of chemotherapy later, Hattiesburg resident was told that the cancer had spread – and he had only a few months to live.

“I’m not a man crying, but my wife and I poured some tears in bed that day,” Story, now 53, recently told NBC News.

Remaining with some applicable, he was recorded in a highly experimental clinical test in Houston involving obtaining a fecal transplant from someone in the advanced stage of cancer that was completely cured by immunotherapy.

“I know I was a kind of guinea pig, but the only other option was staying home, and I wouldn’t do it,” he said.

At the heart of the treatment of the story was a PD-1 inhibitor-a kind of immunotherapy drug.

Unlike traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation, immunotherapy offers a more intended approach by helping the immune system attack tumors.

Adopted for the first time for cancer treatment in 2011, immunotherapy is shown to be effective in 15% to 20% of people with certain types of cancer.

The numbers are even higher – 45% to 60% – for patients as a history of tumors that have a high number of DNA mutations.

In the case of Story, however, the medicines failed to make much influence.

It was up to his oncologist, Dr. Michael Overman, Hasi in a woman with metastatic colorectal cancer who had experienced a much better response to medication – her tumors were reduced by 90% and, with little surgery, she cured.

Believing that the transfer of unique intestinal germs from a “superdonor” like that to someone who was not responding well to the medication could be successful, Overman began his clinical test with 15 patients in advanced stages of certain cancers.

Participants received some superdonor excrement infusions for one month, and five of the patients received additional oral doses-in the form of frozen dried capsules-for another six months.

Only three participants underwent a temporary pardon. But the story was lucky – his tumors began to disappear and, until the fall of 2024, he was healed official.

“By that time, they were beautiful, definitely the cancer had left,” Story told NBC News. “For me and my wife, it felt like winning the lottery because the trial had no opportunity.”

They may sound weird, but “weak pills” were approved by the US food and drug administration in 2023 for fecal transplants.

Researchers in Canada recently began a clinical test to see if fecal transplants in the form of capsule can improve changes in patients with pancreatic cancer, which has only a five-year survival rate of 13%.

For history, innovative treatment has been nothing less than a miracle.

“I am a Christian and I believe God took me through this for whatever reason he has something else planned for me,” he said.

“Last fall, I’ve been able to get back to work for the first time in four years. I’m again training football and school school. It’s my passion. It’s been a lot because I had to withdraw. Now she feels like I had a second chance in life.”