Streptococcus thermophilus and Reduced Cancer Risk

• Mendelian randomization study of the role of TD CD4+ T cells in the association between Streptococcus thermophilus and esophageal cancer.

  • 2026-01-16
  • Observational
  • Medicine 105(3)
  • • Yonglun Zhang
    • Qian Li

  • PubMed: 41560008
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000047174

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Cancer Risk

  • Low evidence

  The results revealed a significant protective association between Streptococcus thermophilus and EC risk (odds ratio = 0.586, 95% confidence interval = 0.402-0.855, P = .006).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes