Bowel Cancer related to gut bacteria species - Alarming results but in a nascent stage.
It has been for several years' scientists are researching bowel cancer and the cause behind the same. Interestingly it has been inferred by National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) that the specific species of gut bacteria cause bowel cancer. Studies conducted on humans and mice show the cause as the gut microbiome. Still, there was an ambiguity about whether the disease causes the variation in the gut bacteria or some other facts associated with it changes both.
A new study was conducted with two different sets of people. The study involved Dr. Kaitlin Wade's, a researcher at the University of Bristol and his colleagues' research on the genetic and gut microbiome data of 4000 people across Europe. The study revealed that 13 genetic variants linked to the variations in the different types of gut bacteria.
Another research done on 2000 people disclosed that those whose genes are linked to having a kind of Bacteroidales bacteria are more prone to develop bowel cancer. The risk factor lies between 2% to 15%, where this type of bacteria is more familiar with people affected with "Bowel Cancer."