Bacteria can lower cancer risk, conference told

Consuming friendly live bacteria may help to lower people’s risk of developing cancer, it was claimed today.

Bacteria can lower cancer risk, conference told
Tue, 15 Mar, 2005 - 18:32

Consuming friendly live bacteria may help to lower people’s risk of developing cancer, it was claimed today.

Professor Ian Rowland from the University of Ulster Coleraine said that research had shown probiotics had a role to play in reducing the chances of developing cancer of the lower intestine.

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