Olivereen Le Roux

Microbes influence cancer initiation, progression and therapy responsiveness. IL-17 signaling contributes to gut barrier immunity by regulating microbes but also drives tumor growth. A knowledge gap remains regarding the influence of enteric IL-17-IL-17RA signaling and their microbial regulation on the behavior of distant tumors.

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Oral Presentations - Proffered Abstracts Vidhi Chandra, Olivereen Le Roux, Erick Riquelme, Yu Zhang, Anirban Maitra, James. R White and Florencia McAllister DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.MVC2020-PR05 Published April 2020 Abstracts: AACR Special Conference on the Microbiome, Viruses, and Cancer; February 21-24, 2020; Orlando, FL Abstract Long-term survival in pancreatic cancer (PC) is rare as only a minority of all resected patients survive for >5 years.