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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2025

Reprogramming prostate cancer through the microbiome.

Jhommara Bautista, Walter D Cardona-Maya, Kelly Gancino-Guevara, Andrés López-Cortés

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. 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

4 authors.

Jhommara BautistaCancer Research Group (CRG), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Walter D Cardona-MayaGrupo Reproducción, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Kelly Gancino-GuevaraCancer Research Group (CRG), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Andrés López-CortésCancer Research Group (CRG), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major global public health challenge, driven by a multifactorial interplay of genetic, epigenetic, hormonal and environmental determinants. In recent years, the human microbiome has emerged as a critical and previously underappreciated contributor to PCa initiation, progression, and therapeutic response. Emerging high-resolution multi-omics studies have demonstrated that microbial communities across the gut, urinary tract and prostate form a functional axis that shapes immune surveillance, hormonal metabolism, inflammatory tone and epigenetic regulation. Dysbiosis in these compartments promotes chronic inflammation, modulates androgen receptor signaling, and produces bioactive metabolites, including short-chain fatty acids, that activate oncogenic IGF-1/MAPK/PI3K and NF-κB/JAK/STAT pathways. Cross-compartmental trafficking of bacterial taxa and metabolites reinforces tumor-promoting circuits, while specific commensals such as

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dysbiosisfecal microbiota transplantationmicrobiome-based therapeutic approachesprobioticsprostate cancer

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PMID41384118
PMCPMC12689563

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