Does Oral Bacteria Affect Colon Cancer?

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Does Oral Bacteria Affect Colon Cancer?   The colon is a part of the digestive tract whose function is the absorption of water and nutrients from food. Colon cancer is a leading cause of mortality.

Biosynthetic capacity allows cancer stem cells to contribute to tumor growth   Tumors are not a consistent cluster of cells. In fact, colon cancers carry differentiated-like cells, just like the functional cells of the intestinal wall and pluripotent cells—the supposed tumor stem cells.         Aspirin reduces hereditary colorectal cancer risk   Aspirin reduces colorectal cancer risk by half in individuals at high genetic risk. Preventive efficacy is prolonged for 10-20 years after treatment with aspirin.         New guidelines improve outcomes in colon cancer patients   A new University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study finds that many Kentucky patients with colon cancer are not receiving the recommended standard of care therapy for their disease.         Immunotherapy doubles progression-free survival time of patients with advanced bowel cancer   A large international trial involving UCL and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has found that pembrolizumab, a form of immunotherapy, more than doubled the 'progression free survival' time of patients with a specific subtype of advanced bowel cancer, when compared with chemotherapy.

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