title: [Microbiota and Cancer: a "pas de deux"?]
abstract: Malignant diseases pose an enormous challenge to today's health care system. Advanced pathophysiological understanding of gastrointestinal microbiota and a viable, causal relation to the development of malignant tumors is increasingly becoming the focus of medical research. The following article presents key pathomechanisms of reciprocal interaction between microbiota and malignancy and illustrates the associated role of diet.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stallmach
authors.forename: Arndt
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steube
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004035:Diet Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004067:Digestive System Neoplasms / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005516:Food Microbiology; D000069196:Gastrointestinal Microbiome / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome