{"id":128679,"date":"2021-10-08T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/gut-bugs-can-drive-prostate-cancer-growth-and-treatment-resistance"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:22:23","slug":"gut-bugs-can-drive-prostate-cancer-growth-and-treatment-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/gut-bugs-can-drive-prostate-cancer-growth-and-treatment-resistance","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gut bugs\u2019 can drive prostate cancer growth and treatment resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-bugs-can-drive-prostate-cancer-growth-and-treatment-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists also analysed microbial genetic material from the stool of men with prostate cancer and identified a specific bacterium \u2013 Ruminococcus \u2013 that may play a major role in the development of resistance. In contrast, the bacterium Prevotella stercorea was associated with favourable clinical outcomes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Image: Section of a mouse gut. Credit: Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<p>Common gut bacteria can fuel the growth of prostate cancers and allow them to evade the effects of treatment, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists revealed how gut bacteria contribute to the progression of advanced prostate cancers and their resistance to hormone therapy \u2013 by providing an alternative source of growth-promoting androgens, or male hormones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists also analysed microbial genetic material from the stool of men with prostate cancer and identified a specific bacterium \u2013 Ruminococcus \u2013 that may play a major role in the development of resistance. In contrast, the bacterium Prevotella stercorea was associated with favourable clinical outcomes. Image: Section of a mouse gut. Credit: Kevin Mackenzie, University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}