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ReviewCancers2020

Fungal Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Its Role in Colorectal, Oral, and Pancreatic Carcinogenesis.

Karolina Kaźmierczak-Siedlecka, Aleš Dvořák, Marcin Folwarski, Agnieszka Daca, Katarzyna Przewłócka, Wojciech Makarewicz

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Dysbiosis and extraintestinal cancers.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2025
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  17. Biological biomarkers of oral cancer.Periodontology 2000 · 2024
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  20. Bifidobacterium modulation of tumor immunotherapy and its mechanism.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2024
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Karolina Kaźmierczak-SiedleckaDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-214 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0283-1436
Aleš DvořákInstitute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Faculty General Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 12108 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-1285-6928
Marcin FolwarskiDepartment of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7301-1689
Agnieszka DacaDepartment of Pathology and Experimental Rheumatology, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1485-3090
Katarzyna PrzewłóckaDepartment of Bioenergetics and Physiology of Exercise, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland.
Wojciech MakarewiczDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-214 Gdańsk, Poland.
Gdańsk Medical University · PLCharles University · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association between bacterial as well as viral gut microbiota imbalance and carcinogenesis has been intensively analysed in many studies; nevertheless, the role of fungal gut microbiota (mycobiota) in colorectal, oral, and pancreatic cancer development is relatively new and undiscovered field due to low abundance of intestinal fungi as well as lack of well-characterized reference genomes. Several specific fungi amounts are increased in colorectal cancer patients; moreover, it was observed that the disease stage is strongly related to the fungal microbiota profile; thus, it may be used as a potential diagnostic biomarker for adenomas.

Indexed as

colorectal cancergut microbiotamycobiotaoral cancerpancreatic cancerSaccharomyces boulardii

Identifiers

PMID32455985
PMCPMC7281455
OpenAlexW3027631759

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