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The role of probiotic bacteria in cancer prevention
1Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, NOVUM, S-141 86, Huddinge, Sweden.
Microbes and Infection
|July 8, 2000
Abstract:
Colorectal cancer is one of the most important causes of cancer morbidity and mortality in western countries [1]. A myriad of healthful effects have been attributed to the probiotic lactic acid bacteria; perhaps the most controversial remains that of anticancer activity. There is no direct experimental evidence for cancer suppression in humans as a result of consumption of lactic cultures in fermented or unfermented dairy products. However, there is a wealth of indirect evidence, based largely on laboratory studies, in the literature and this will be summarised in the present paper.