Could fungi in tumors fuel cancer's spread?
Scientists discovered traces of fungi lurking in the tumors of people with different types of cancer, including breast, colon, pancreatic and lung cancers. However, it's still not clear that theise fungi plays any role in the development or progression of cancer.
"Some tumors had no fungi at all, and some had a huge amount of fungi," co-senior author Ravid Straussman, a cancer biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, told STAT ; often, though, when tumors contained fungi they did so in"low abundances," the team noted in their report.
The second Cell study uncovered similar results to the first but focused specifically on gastrointestinal, lung and breast tumors, Nature reported . The researchers found that each of those three cancer types tended to host the fungal genuses Candida, Blastomyces and Malassezia, respectively. RELATED STORIES—Experimental rectal cancer drug caused all patients' tumors to disappear in small trial—Cancer patients weren't responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant.
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