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ReviewBiomedicines2025

Microbiome Integrity Enhances the Efficacy and Safety of Anticancer Drug.

Alice N Mafe, Dietrich Büsselberg

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Review in Biomedicines, 2025. 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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  3. Gut Microbiota and Extraintestinal Cancers: Mechanistic Insights and Microbiome-Targeted Interventions.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2026
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  11. Amino Acid Nutrition in Poultry: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  13. Molecular Mechanisms of Probiotic Action Against Gastrointestinal Cancers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Alice N MafeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Taraba State University, Main Campus, Jalingo 660101, Taraba State, Nigeria.ORCID 0009-0004-4155-5819
Dietrich BüsselbergWeill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha Metropolitan Area, Doha P.O. Box 22104, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0001-5196-3366

Funding

QNRF NPRP 14S0311-210033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intricate relationship between anticancer drugs and the gut microbiome influences cancer treatment outcomes. This review paper focuses on the role of microbiome integrity in enhancing the efficacy and safety of anticancer drug therapy, emphasizing the pharmacokinetic interactions between anticancer drugs and the gut microbiota. It explores how disruptions to microbiome composition, or dysbiosis, can alter drug metabolism, immune responses, and treatment side effects. By examining the mechanisms of microbiome disruption caused by anticancer drugs, this paper highlights specific case studies of drugs like cyclophosphamide, 5-fluorouracil, and irinotecan, and their impact on microbial diversity and clinical outcomes. The review also discusses microbiome-targeted strategies, including prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), as promising interventions to enhance cancer treatment. Furthermore, the potential of microbiome profiling in personalizing therapy and integrating these interventions into clinical practice is explored. Finally, this paper proposes future research directions, including developing novel biomarkers and a deeper comprehension of drug-microbiome interactions, to respond to current gaps in knowledge and improve patient outcomes in cancer care.

Indexed as

anticancer drug therapycancer treatment safetydrug–microbiome interactionsmicrobiome integritytherapeutic outcomestherapy

Identifiers

PMID40002835
PMCPMC11852609

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