Bacteria and tumours: causative agents or opportunistic inhabitants?
| dc.contributor.author | Cummins, Joanne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tangney, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.funder | Health Research Board | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | European Commission | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-01T08:23:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-01T08:23:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-03-28 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Associations between different bacteria and various tumours have been reported in patients for decades. Studies involving characterisation of bacteria within tumour tissues have traditionally been in the context of tumourigenesis as a result of bacterial presence within healthy tissues, and in general, dogma holds that such bacteria are causative agents of malignancy (directly or indirectly). While evidence suggests that this may be the case for certain tumour types and bacterial species, it is plausible that in many cases, clinical observations of bacteria within tumours arise from spontaneous infection of established tumours. Indeed, growth of bacteria specifically within tumours following deliberate systemic administration has been demonstrated for numerous bacterial species at preclinical and clinical levels. We present the available data on links between bacteria and tumours, and propose that besides the few instances in which pathogens are playing a pathogenic role in cancer, in many instances, the prevalent relationship between solid tumours and bacteria is opportunistic rather than causative, and discuss opportunities for exploiting tumour-specific bacterial growth for cancer treatment. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Health Research Board (grants HRA_POR/2012/99 and HRA_POR/2010/138); European Commission (Seventh Framework Program grant PIOF-GA-2009-255466.) | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cummins, J. and Tangey, M. (2008) 'Bacteria and tumours: causative agents or opportunistic inhabitants?', Infectious Agents and Cancer, 8:11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-9378-8-11 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1750-9378-8-11 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 11-8 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1750-9378 | |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Infectious Agents and Cancer | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 11-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3047 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 8 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en |
| dc.rights | © 2013 Cummins and Tangney; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 | en |
| dc.subject | Cancer | en |
| dc.subject | Tumours | en |
| dc.subject | Pathogens | en |
| dc.subject | Bacteria | en |
| dc.subject | Tumour-specific bacterial growth | en |
| dc.title | Bacteria and tumours: causative agents or opportunistic inhabitants? | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
