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Researchers Find Link Between Intestinal Bacteria and White
Blood Cell Cancer Posted Date: 7/29/2013 10:30 AM  Robert
Schiestl, Ph.D.Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive
Cancer Center (JCCC) have discovered that specific types of
bacteria that live in the gut are major contributors to
lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells that are part of the
human immune system. The study, led by Robert Schiestl, member
of the JCCC and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine,
environmental health sciences, and radiation oncology, was
published online ahead of press in the journal Cancer Research.
In rodents, intestinal bacteria influence obesity, intestinal
inflammation, and certain types of epithelial cancers. Those
cancers affect the coverings of the stomach, liver or colon.
However, little is known about the identity of the bacterial
species that promote the growth of or protect the