Oral Bacteria Increase Colorectal Cancer Mortality
Bacteria from the mouth increase colorectal cancer mortality, according to researchers at Harvard. Their results were published in the journal Gut. When F. nucleatum was…
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P. gingivalis Increases Orodigestive Cancer Mortality
The periodontal bacterium P. gingivalis substantially increases orodigestive cancer mortality, according to a study in Carcinogenesis. In a study of 12,605 individuals over the course…
Oral Pathogen Blocks Immune System from Attacking Colorectal Cancer
Researchers in Israel have uncovered a new role that periodontal pathogen Fusobacterium nucleatum plays in colorectal cancer, according to research published in the journal Immunity….
Cancer cases ‘set to rise by half by 2030’: UN
New cases of cancer will rise by half by 2030, reaching 21.6 million per year compared to 14 million in 2012, the UN said on Monday in a global analysis of the scourge. Cancer deaths, meanwhile, will likely rise from 8.2 million to 13 million per year…
Oral Bacterium Helps Colorectal Cancer Grow
Yiping Han, PhD, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University who has already made groundbreaking progress on the relationship between periodontal bacteria and pre-term births…