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Unwanted passengers: Microbes hitchiking in breast cancer metastases
Sheetal Parida1, Julia L Drewes2
1Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abstract:
In a recent Cell paper, Fu et al. bridge descriptive cancer microbiome research with mechanistic and functional insight. With savvy use of antibiotics, the authors demonstrate divergent roles of the gut and intratumoral microbiome in breast tumor growth and metastasis, providing potentially actionable tools for better breast cancer management.
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