Diet, Microbioma and Gastrointestinal Cancers
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 13824
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Interests: endoscopes; cancer; oncology; endoscopic surgery; cancer diagnostics; Barrett's esophagus; atrophic gastritis; colon polyposis; tumors
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite authors to submit original research articles and reviews that address any aspect of diet, microbioma and gastrointestinal cancers. In the past decade, the interactions between microorganisms and tumors have attracted much attention in the efforts to understand various features of complex microbial communities, as well as the possible mechanisms through which the microbiota are involved in cancer prevention, carcinogenesis, and anticancer therapy. A large number of studies have indicated that microbial dysbiosis contributes to cancer susceptibility via multiple pathways in different gastrointestinal tumors, including esophageal, gastric, colorectal, pancreatic and liver cancer. Further studies have suggested that the microbiota and their associated metabolites are not only closely related to carcinogenesis, by inducing inflammation and immune dysregulation, which lead to genetic instability, but also interfere with the pharmacodynamics of anticancer agents.
Due to its importance, emerging studies have focussed on targeting microbiota, in order to ameliorate therapeutic effectiveness. It has become clear that the microbial community is closely related to the efficacy of chemotherapy, while the correlation between microbiota and immunotherapy represents a very fascinating recent field of research. Checkpoint inhibitor therapy has emerged as a novel treatment, and has been clinically accepted as a major therapeutic strategy for cancer. Gut microbiota are related to cancer and the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), and supplementation with specific bacterial species can restore, or enhance, the responses to ICIs.
Diet exhibits a strong impact on microbial composition, and could be both a risk factor for the development of cancer and a strong protective tool. Moreover, recent data suggest that diet could have a vital role in providing more effective therapeutic plans and reducing treatment complications.
Prof. Dr. Stefano Realdon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diet
- microbioma
- gastrointestinal cancer
- immunotherapy
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