Mapping the pancancer metastasis tumor microbiome

Chi Chun Wong; Jun Yu

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.040

Mapping the pancancer metastasis tumor microbiome

Cell. 2024 Apr 25;187(9):2126-2128. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.040.

Authors

Chi Chun Wong¹, Jun Yu²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
² Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Electronic address: junyu@cuhk.edu.hk.

PMID: 38670070
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.040

Abstract

The landscape of the intratumoral microbiome in tumor metastases is largely unchartered. In this issue of Cell, Voest et al. profiled the tumor metastasis-associated microbiome in a pancancer cohort of 4,160 biopsies from 26 cancer types. This dataset offers a useful resource for understanding the role of the microbiome in metastatic cancers.

MeSH terms

Humans
Microbiota*
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Neoplasms / microbiology
Neoplasms / pathology