Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Association between post-diagnostic use of cholera vaccine and risk of death in prostate cancer patients

  • Jianguang Ji,
  • Jan Sundquist,
  • Kristina Sundquist

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04814-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Post-diagnostic use of cholera vaccine can improve the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer suggesting cholera toxin might have an antineoplastic effect. Here the authors perform a nationwide population-based study and report an association between cholera vaccine administration and reduction in prostate cancer mortality.