IMR Press / FBE / Volume 15 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbe1504028
Open Access Review
The Role of the Microbiome in Inflammation and Carcinogenesis
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1 Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Białystok, Poland
*Correspondence: a.jablonska@pb.edu.pl (Agata Jabłońska-Trypuć)
Front. Biosci. (Elite Ed) 2023, 15(4), 28; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbe1504028
Submitted: 21 September 2023 | Revised: 12 November 2023 | Accepted: 16 November 2023 | Published: 5 December 2023
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Inflammation has been confirmed to exist in the tumor microenvironment, while the risk of cancer occurrence increases in cases of chronic inflammation. It is estimated that approximately 10% to 20% of cancers are associated with chronic infections and attendant inflammation. Bacteria, both pathogenic and commensal, viruses, and fungi actively participate in the development and maintenance of inflammation and tumor growth in humans. The exposome, which is a sum of human environmental exposures, such as industrial diet, consumed drugs, and toxins, affects the composition and function of the human microbiome, which could lead to dysbiosis and disorders in tissue homeostasis through different mechanisms, including the intensification of the immune response, activation and abnormal proliferation, and disruption to epithelial barrier integrity. Presently, science remains at the stage of revealing the complexity associated with the mechanisms involved in building relationships that cover the microbiome–inflammation–tumor, yet it is already known how important it is to care for microbial homeostasis of the organism.

Keywords
cancer
microbiome
virus
bacteria
probiotic
inflammation
exposome
dysbiosis
yeasts/fungi
prebiotic
Funding
WZ/WB-IIŚ/6/2022/Ministry of Education and Science, Poland
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