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Diarrhea-causing Salmonella can be weaponized to flush out cancer

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By: Beth Mole From: arstechnica.com A notorious germ best known for getting people rushing to the bathroom may one day have cancer patients headed to clinics for a new treatment instead. With some genetic tweaking, Salmonella typhimurium transformed from a germ that causes mayhem in people’s intestines to one that can infiltrate deep into the bowels of tumors and spark …

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Can Salmonella cure cancer? City of Hope thinks so

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: City News Service From: dailynews.com Researchers at the City of Hope said in a study published today that they have created a therapy that uses the Salmonella bacterium to combat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma currently have few good therapeutic options, with most medications able to increase survival by only …