Role of Yeasts in the Salivary Acetaldehyde Production From Ethanol Among Risk Groups for Ethanol‐Associated Oral Cavity Cancer

Abstract

This study shows that some C. albicans strains have a marked capacity to produce toxic and carcinogenic acetaldehyde from ethanol in vitro. Because the in vitro production of salivary acetaldehyde has been previously shown to correlate with in vivo acetaldehyde production, our finding could be an important microbial pathogenetic factor underlying cancer of the oral cavity associated with ethanol drinking.