Your dentist might catch cancer before your doctor can

These oral bacteria tripled cancer risk in a massive new study. Researchers followed 122,000 people for nearly a decade. They found something wild. Three mouth bacteria—and one fungus—could predict pancreatic cancer risk years before diagnosis. People with high levels of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Eubacterium nodatum, and Parvimonas micra were 3.4 times more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Candida, the same yeast that causes oral thrush, was also tied to higher risk. Why does this matter? Because pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest. It’s silent until it’s too lat