Aggressive prostate cancer in African men: are microbes involved? Investigating decontamination, microbiomes and human genomics

With an incidence of >1.4 million cases worldwide, prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in men. One in eight men will obtain a diagnosis in their lifetime. However, this is doubled in men of African descent and tends to be more aggressive. A possible reason is that microbial differences contribute. The lab recently found that…