The potential for detection of colorectal cancer based on an analysis of the variability in a patient‘s gut microbiome has been highlighted in a study presented at United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week.
The findings come from the Dutch microbiome project, which is a large-scale studying involving 8,208 participants. Researchers analysed the gut microbiome of those who developed pre-cancerous colorectal lesions before faecal sampling between 2000 and 2015, in addition to those who developed such lesions following sampling between 2015 and 2022.
