Gut bacteria can stimulate colorectal cancer

03 September 2021, 09:54 | Health
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A new review analysis suggested that some of the gut bacteria that commonly cause gastric upset may also create an ideal "

Experts from the Wistar Institute, a research center in Philadelphia, and the National Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania, presented the above data at the Annual Meeting of the American Cancer Research Association in San Diego..

Senior study author Frank Rocher, a professor at the Wistar Institute, notes:.

“There is dissatisfaction with considering new ways to accurately determine how colon cancer forms and what exactly causes its progression to deadly forms..

Our team suggested that some of the bacterial proteins, in turn, may contribute to various genetic changes that create certain conditions in the gut that stimulate the progression of colon cancer. "

Colorectal cancer develops because mutations or changes in the genes of healthy cells lining the intestine (epithelium) accumulate, causing them to become progressively cancerous and take the form of polyps, which can eventually become cancerous.

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