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A mouth bacteria has starring role in colorectal cancer, study finds

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Representative Fna C1 and Fna C2 strains co-cultured with human colon cancer cells. The grid shows the results of computational analysis of confocal imaging. Independent masks for cancer epithelial cells (grey), and intracellular bacterial cells (Fna C1 green, Fna C2 lavender) were generated. The masks were used to calculate the percent of cancer cells with…

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Does a specific bacteria subtype drive colorectal cancer progression?

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Researchers have found that a specific subtype of a microbe commonly found in the mouth is able to travel to the gut and grow within colorectal cancer tumours. This microbe is also a culprit for driving cancer progression and leads to poorer patient outcomes after cancer treatment. The findings could help improve therapeutic approaches and…

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