{"id":16,"date":"2016-03-01T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-03-01T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:03:21","slug":"gum-disease-bacteria-linked-to-esophageal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/2016\/03\/01\/gum-disease-bacteria-linked-to-esophageal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gum Disease Bacteria Linked to Esophageal Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Progression-of-gum-disease\"<\/p>\n

Infectious Agents and Cancer published a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0relating gum disease to esophageal cancer. \u00a0The most remarkable and relying data is that the\u00a0bacterium P. gingivalis\u00a0<\/em>was found in 61% of the cancerous tissue samples.<\/p>\n

Co-senior author Huizhi Wang, assistant professor of oral immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, says:<\/p>\n

“These findings provide the first direct evidence that infection could be a novel risk factor for ESCC, and may also serve as a prognostic biomarker for this type of cancer.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Furthermore, Professor Wang\u00a0says should further studies actually prove that P. gingivalis<\/em> causes ESCC, then the implication would be enormous, and:<\/p>\n

“It would suggest that improving oral hygiene may reduce ESCC risk; screening for\u00a0P. gingivalis\u00a0<\/em>in dental plaque may identify susceptible subjects; and using antibioitcs or other antibacterial strategies may prevent ESCC progression”<\/h2>\n

I’d be interested to know how this would affect antibiotic resistance – more to come!<\/p>\n

Brush your teeth and go to the dentist people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infectious Agents and Cancer published a\u00a0study\u00a0relating gum disease to esophageal cancer. \u00a0The most remarkable and relying data is that the\u00a0bacterium P. gingivalis\u00a0was found in 61% of the cancerous tissue samples. Co-senior author Huizhi Wang, assistant professor of oral immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, says: “These findings provide the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/svetlanasantos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}