HOW DIARRHEAL BACTERIA CAUSE SOME COLON CANCERS REVEALED IN MOUSE STUDIES
Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
Johns Hopkins scientists say they have figured out how bacteria that cause diarrhea may also be the culprit in some colon cancers. The investigators say that strains of the common Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) dupe immune system cells into permitting runaway colon tissue inflammation, a precursor for malignant growth.