Dental Insurance – Oral Bacteria and Colorectal Cancer
How dose oral bacteria make colorectal cancer more aggressive?
Though recent study, scientists have identified a molecular mechanism through which an oral bacterium accelerates colorectal cancer growth.
Tests have shown that around a third of people who develop colorectal cancer also have the bacterium, which has the name Fusobacterium nucleaturm. Their cancer also tends to be more aggressive, but it was not clear why until the study