Bottom Line: Among Japanese patients with esophageal cancer, those whose cancer tested positive for DNA from the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum had shorter cancer-specific survival compared with those whose cancer had no DNA from the bacterium.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/aafc-poc101916.php
Presence of certain oral bacterium in esophageal cancer samples associated with shorter survival