BROAD LINES

OF RESEARCH THAT

WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY

BE APPLICABLE

TO DIFFERENT CANCERS

Over the past few years, the links

between microbiota and cancer have

been brought to light, leading to new

lines of research to improve diagnosis

or treatment of this disease.

FOUNDATION

AWARDS

3 national grants

PARTICIPATING IN DIAGNOSIS

Sadly, some cancer patients today have a very

low survival rate. Aside from treatment resistance,

delayed diagnosis is often partly to blame. This is

often the case with pancreatic cancer. Microbiota

could be a novel indicator for establishing early

diagnosis. A team of researchers set up a statistical

model comparing analysis of the fecal microbiota

of two patient cohorts (from Spain and Germany).

They showed that the composition of the fecal

microbiota, combined with pancreatic cancer

markers, may provide a way of identifying patients

suffering from this form of cancer, regardless of

the stage of their disease

(7)

. These results are really

encouraging.

Other similar studies are also in progress aimed at

improving the diagnose of thyroid or even cervical

cancer

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