A germ commonly found in the human mouth can travel to colon tumors and appears to speed their growth, new research shows.
The microbe has several subtypes, but only one, dubbed Fna C2, appeared to be linked to tumor tumor and not healthy tissue, they reported March 20 inhave poor survival and poorer prognosis compared with patients without the microbe,” co-corresponding study author Susan Bullman said in a
“Now we're finding that a specific subtype of this microbe is responsible for tumor growth," added Bullman, who is a cancer microbiome researcher at the center. "It suggests therapeutics and screening that target this subgroup within the microbiota would help people who are at a higher risk for more aggressivebacteria that colonize the mouth have distinct subtypes. But only the Fna C2 subtype has the ability to travel from the mouth to the stomach and then propagate in the lower gastrontestinal tract, including the colon. , according to Bullman's group.
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