Johns Hopkins Doctors Discover That a Common Infection May Cause Cancer
The disorder known as colorectal cancer, or rectum cancer, is characterized by an uncontrolled cell proliferation in the rectum or colon. According to a recent study, Clostridioides difficile may be the cause of some colorectal malignancies. The bacterium species Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, which is well known for causing catastrophic diarrheal infections, may also cause colorectal cancer, according to data gathered by researchers at the Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. This bacteria causes approximately 500,000 infections annually in the United States, many of which are very difficult to treat, and the study, which was just published in the journal Cancer Discovery, may give light on another troubling job for it. "It's surprising how many people under 50 have received colon cancer diagnoses in recent years. According to Cynthia Sears, M.D., the Bloomberg-Kimmel Professor of Cancer Immunotherapy and a pro...