title: Cancer and the microbiota.
abstract: A host's microbiota may increase, diminish, or have no effect at all on cancer susceptibility. Assigning causal roles in cancer to specific microbes and microbiotas, unraveling host-microbiota interactions with environmental factors in carcinogenesis, and exploiting such knowledge for cancer diagnosis and treatment are areas of intensive interest. This Review considers how microbes and the microbiota may amplify or mitigate carcinogenesis, responsiveness to cancer therapeutics, and cancer-associated complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
authors.forename: Wendy S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Garrett
mesh_terms: D063646:Carcinogenesis / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods; D064307:Microbiota / Q000276:immunology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy
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