Cancer and One Health: tumor-bearing individuals can act as super spreaders of symbionts in communities

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 21283 - 7
• Main Authors: Tissot, Sophie, Meliani, Jordan, Chee, Matthew, Nedelcu, Aurora M., Boutry, Justine, Tökölyi, Jácint, Hamede, Rodrigo, Roche, Benjamin, Ujvari, Beata, Thomas, Frédéric, Dujon, Antoine M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 11.09.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/1469; 631/158/857; Animal biology; Animals; Biotic interactions; Cancer; Ciliates; Ciliophora - physiology; Community; Ecology; Ecology, environment; Ecosystem; Ecosystem biology; Ecosystems; Emerging diseases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydra - microbiology; Hydra - physiology; Infections; Invertebrate Zoology; Life Sciences; multidisciplinary; Neoplasm; Neoplasms; One Health; Outbreaks; Polyps; Polyps (organisms); Protozoa; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Symbionts; Symbiosis; Tumors; Neoplasm; Outbreaks; Ecology; Biotic interactions; Emerging diseases; Evolutionary ecology; Ecological epidemiology

Recent theoretical advances in the One Health approach have suggested that cancer pathologies should be given greater consideration, as cancers often render their hosts more vulnerable to infectious agents, which could turn them into super spreaders within ecosystems. Although biologically plausible...