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Tongue-Based Detection of
Pancreatic Cancer
T H E U N N O T I C E D S P R E A D of pancreatic cancer makes effective treatment difficult. However,
findings from a study in the Journal of Oral Microbiology may pave the way to earlier detection
through the evaluation of differences in the tongue microbiome.
The tongue-coating microbiomes of 30 patients diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer
differed starkly from those of 25 healthy patients, researchers discovered. Patients with pancre-
atic cancer had lower levels of haemophilus and porphyromonas bacteria and higher levels of
fusobacterium and leptotrichia bacteria. This builds on earlier findings that microbiomes in other
areas of the bodies of pancreatic cancer patients differ from those of people without the condition.
"This could potentially lead to the development of new microbiome-based early diagnostic or
preventive tools for the disease," lead author Lanjuan Li of China's Zhenjiang University states
in a news release.
Pancreatic cancer causes about 7% of cancer deaths in the U.S., although it represents only
3% of all cancers. n
— Steve Barrett
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