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ReviewJournal of translational medicine2024

Targeting the gut microbiota: a new strategy for colorectal cancer treatment.

Yue Hu, Peng Zhou, Kaili Deng, Yuping Zhou, Kefeng Hu

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Review in Journal of translational medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Interplay between the gut microbiota, its metabolites and carcinogens.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  11. Molecular Mechanisms of Probiotic Action Against Gastrointestinal Cancers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yue HuHealth Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Peng ZhouHealth Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Kaili DengHealth Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Yuping ZhouDepartment of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. nbuzhouyuping@126.com.
Kefeng HuDepartment of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. fyhukefeng@nbu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-5546-5230

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo Municipality 2022J229Project of NINGBO Leading Medical & Health Discipline 2022-S04Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China LTGD23C040008, LBY23H200006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHow to reduce the high incidence rate and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) effectively is the focus of current research. Endoscopic treatment of early-stage CRC and colorectal adenomas (CAC) has a high success rate, but although several treatments are available for advanced CRC, such as surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, the 5-year survival rate remains low. In view of the high incidence rate and mortality of CRC, early rational drug prevention for high-risk groups and exploration of alternative treatment modalities are particularly warranted. Gut microbiota is the target of and interacts with probiotics, prebiotics, aspirin, metformin, and various Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) for the prevention of CRC. In addition, the anti-cancer mechanisms of probiotics differ widely among bacterial strains, and both bacterial strains and their derivatives and metabolites have been found to have anti-cancer effects. Gut microbiota plays a significant role in early drug prevention of CRC and treatment of CRC in its middle and late stages, targeting gut microbiota may be a new strategy for colorectal cancer treatment.

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Colorectal NeoplasmsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsHumansProbioticsColorectal cancerGut microbiotaMedicinalPrebioticsProbiotics

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PMID39379983
PMCPMC11460241

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