Cancer and the microbiota
Les articles de ce dossier passent en revue les perspectives offertes par les travaux récents en immunologie des cancers pour le développement de diverses formes d'immunothérapies
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.
Science , résumé, 2015