Cancer-death button gets jammed by gut bacterium

Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 13:32 in Health & Medicine

A type of bacterium is associated with the recurrence of colorectal cancer and poor outcomes, research show. Scientists found that Fusobacterium nucleatum in the gut can stop chemotherapy from causing a type of cancer cell death called apoptosis.

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