The Cancer Microbiota: EMT and Inflammation as Shared Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Plasticity and Progression

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The importance of the microbiota in cancer. (a) Bar graphs showing the number of manuscripts published between 1998 and 2018, as retrieved by interrogation of the PubMed bibliographic database using the keywords “microbiome AND cancer” (red, top) and “gene mutation AND cancer” (blue, bottom). (b) Graph showing the growth rate of the “microbiome AND cancer” topic (red) vs the “gene mutation AND cancer” topic calculated in the last 10 years. Each point on the curve represents the ratio between the number of publications in the indicated year and the number of publications in 2008.

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