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Bacteria in Tumors May Reduce the Efficacy of Cancer Chemotherapy (3 of 6)

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Bacteria in Tumors May Reduce the Efficacy of Cancer Chemotherapy (3 of 6)

image: Bacteria (in green) inside a pancreatic cancer cell of the AsPC1 pancreatic cancer cell line. The nucleus of the cancer cell is in blue. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.T. Geller at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Potential role of intratumor bacteria in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine." view more 

Credit: Leore Geller


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