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ReviewAnnual review of immunology2026

Harnessing the Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy: Regulation, Prediction, and Therapeutic Targeting.

Hassane M Zarour, Giorgio Trinchieri

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Review in Annual review of immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Microbiome-guided cancer immunotherapy: immune mechanisms, resistance pathways, and translational opportunities for precision oncology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. Programming the tumor microenvironment through microbiome-driven mechanisms.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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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.

Hassane M ZarourDepartment of Medicine; Department of Immunology; Department of Dermatology; and Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; email: zarourhm@upmc.edu.
Giorgio TrinchieriCancer Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; email: trinchig@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Role of mouse microbiome in cancer and inflammationZIABC011153 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI TRINCHIERI, GIORGIO · 2009 to 2025
$22.0M
Role of inflammation, innate resistance, and immunity in carcinogenesis.ZIABC010793 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI TRINCHIERI, GIORGIO · 2009 to 2025
$16.8M
Project 5: Microenvironment manipulation using anti-angiogenics to improve immunotherapy in melanomaP50CA254865 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DELGOFFE, GREG M., KIRKWOOD, JOHN MUNN · 2021 to 2025
$10.4M
Regulation of human dendritic cell activationZIABC011152 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI TRINCHIERI, GIORGIO · 2009 to 2025
$8.6M
Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy with Intratumoral CPG and PD-1 Blockade in MelanomaR01CA257265 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DAVAR, DIWAKAR, ZAROUR, HASSANE M · 2021 to 2025
$2.6M
Fecal Microbiota Transplant and PD-1 blockade in MelanomaR01CA222203 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ZAROUR, HASSANE M · 2018 to 2022
$2.5M
Therapy with fecal microbiota transplantation and immune checkpoint blockade for solid tumorsU01CA268806 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HASSANE M ZAROUR · 2022 to 2026
$2.4M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC010793Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011152Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011153NCI NIH HHS P50 CA254865NCI NIH HHS R01 CA222203NCI NIH HHS R01 CA257265NCI NIH HHS U01 CA268806
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans are metaorganisms, composed of both host (human) cells and a roughly equal number of commensal microorganisms-collectively known as the microbiome-residing primarily at epithelial barrier surfaces. This review considers human cancer as a disease of the metaorganism, to which the microbiome contributes by influencing genome stability, tissue organization, inflammation, immunity, tumor initiation and promotion, metastasis formation, and therapeutic response. We summarize evidence demonstrating that machine learning models trained on patients' microbiome features moderately predict clinical response to immunotherapy and the development of immune-related adverse events. We review results from single-arm and randomized clinical trials wherein fecal microbiome transplantation from therapy-responsive patients or healthy donors, when combined with therapy targeting programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), improved outcomes in PD-1-refractory patients or served as an effective first-line intervention. We conclude by highlighting the emerging opportunities and ongoing challenges in leveraging the microbiome to enhance the efficacy and safety of cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyMicrobiotaNeoplasmsAnimalsFecal Microbiota TransplantationGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscancer immunotherapyfecal microbiome transplantationimmune-related adverse eventsinflammationmachine learning predictionmicrobiome

Identifiers

PMID41349548
PMCPMC12788855

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