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ReviewImmune network2026

Harnessing the Gut Microbiota to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy: Focus on Lung Cancer.

Uni Park, Jun-Yeong Heo, Seung-Min Chun, June-Chul Lee, Se-Hoon Lee, Seung-Woo Lee

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Review in Immune network, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 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

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Gut microbiota modulation of systemic immunity and cancer immunotherapy: mechanisms, evidence, and therapeutic implications.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Uni ParkDepartment of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9285-0922
Jun-Yeong HeoDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Samsung Advanced Institute of Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06355, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1853-9852
Seung-Min ChunDepartment of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7703-4018
June-Chul LeeDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Samsung Advanced Institute of Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06355, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6025-4550
Se-Hoon LeeDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Samsung Advanced Institute of Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06355, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-3350
Seung-Woo LeeDepartment of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6714-2463

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gut microbiota has emerged as a key orchestrator of systemic immunity, capable of reshaping the tumor microenvironment and modulating responses to cancer immunotherapy via the gut-lung axis. While immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized lung cancer treatment, a significant proportion of patients fail to respond. Accumulating evidence suggests that intestinal microbial composition modulates antitumor immunity, yet clinical associations between specific microbial taxa and ICB outcomes often show inconsistencies across cohorts. In this review, we synthesize current mechanistic insights into how gut microbial metabolites and structural components modulate pulmonary immune surveillance. We critically examine the clinical landscape of microbiome signatures in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), highlighting how species- and strain-level heterogeneity contributes to divergent findings. Finally, we discuss translational strategies-ranging from fecal microbiota transplantation to rationally designed bacterial consortia and engineered probiotics-and propose a roadmap for integrating multi-omics with microbiome engineering to overcome current limitations and optimize precision immunotherapy.

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Gut-lung axisGut microbiotaImmune checkpoint blockadeLung cancerShort-chain fatty acidTumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID41800020
PMCPMC12962831

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