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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Cancer & Microbioma

Could gut bacteria drive the spread of breast cancer?
New research in mice finds that having an unhealthful balance in the gut microbiome can cause breast cancer to spread more aggressively.
New research in mice has discovered that disrupting
the gut microbiome may result in more aggressive
breast cancer.
physician looking at patient's mammogram
One factor that may drive the spread of breast cancer is the population of gut bacteria.
Although the outlook of people with breast cancer has improved dramatically in recent years, predicting and preventing the spread of cancer to other parts of the body (metastasis) continues to be a major challenge in the medical community.
Recent estimates place the number of women living with metastatic breast cancer in the United States at 154,794./.../

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