Oral bacteria may signal pancreatic cancer risk
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal and difficult to detect early. In a new study, researchers report that people who had high levels of antibodies for an infectious oral bacterium turned out to have double the risk for developing the cancer. High antibody levels for harmless oral bacteria, meanwhile, predicted a reduced pancreatic cancer risk.