Microbes and cancer geography: can we exploit recent lessons from the gut system to oral cancer context?

(2014). In summary, the authors elegantly describe the interplay    in the development of intestinal neoplasms in mice. Using interesting experimental tools such as transgenic mice, and simple but insightful strategies such as broad-spectrum antibiotics treatment, the authors demonstrate a clear relationship between bacteria    ˘ˇˆ  ˘˙the results from Lira´s group provide experimental evidence clearly in line with ‘old’ suggestions that bacteria ‘might produce carcinogens’