Special Issue "Gut Microbiota, Diet, and Gastrointestinal Cancer"

Dear Colleagues,

The link between gut microbiota (GM) and gastrointestinal neoplasms is two-way. On the one hand, GM influences the development of neoplasms through the proinflammatory modulation of the local microenvironment, on the other hand, it is influenced by the neoplastic cells themselves and by the various treatments (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, etc.) to which patients are subjected. GM is influenced by prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics supplementation, but the best way to modulate it is the diet pattern.

Understanding more deeply the type of relationship between nutrition, GM, and gastrointestinal cancers could lead to the development of new treatments and the improvement of supportive therapies during the oncological pathway.

I want to invite you to submit perspectives papers, original papers, narrative reviews, as well as systematic reviews, and meta-analyses about this issue.

Dr. Marco Cintoni
Dr. Flavio De Maio
Guest Editors

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• gut microbiota
• diet
• nutrition
• gastrointestinal cancer
• colorectal cancer
• probiotics
• prebiotics
• postbiotics
• radiotherapy
• chemotherapy