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Laurence Zitvogel1,2,3,4,5,6, Guido Kroemer7,6,8,9,10,11
1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Villejuif, France. Laurence.Zitvogel@gustaveroussy.fr.
Abstract:
Accumulating evidence supports the impact of the gut microbiota on the clinical efficacy of cancer immunotherapies against extraintestinal tumors, but it has not yet been addressed whether local commensals could also dictate the prognosis of patients with cancer. In this issue of Cancer Discovery, Tsay and colleagues demonstrate that the lower airway microbiota may harbor oral commensals that turn on IL17-mediated inflammatory pathways and reprogram host transcription to exacerbate lung cancer progression.See related article by Tsay et al., p. 293.
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