Drugs, bugs, and cancer: Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes chemoresistance in colorectal cancer

• Autores: Azucena Ramos, Michael T. Hemann
• Localización: Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, Vol. 170, Nº. 3, 2017, págs. 411-413
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The tumor microenvironment has recently been shown to play decisive roles in chemotherapeutic response. In this issue of Cell, Yu et al. add to these findings by identifying the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum as a previously unrecognized chemoresistance mediator in colorectal cancer, thereby establishing the microbiota as a potential therapeutic target.