Table 1.

Summary table of selected diagnostic methods and their diagnostic ability based on area under receiver operating curve (AUROC) scores, as previously described.

Diagnostic method	Cancer type	Microbial marker(s)	AUROC score (out of 1.0)	Reference
Salivary microbiome	pancreatic	N. elongata and S. mitis	0.90	Farrell et al., 201183
Salivary microbiome	squamous cell (lung)	Capnocytophaga and Veillonella	0.86	Yan et al., 201586
Fecal microbiome	colorectal	C. symbiosum	0.73	Xie et al., 201790
Fecal microbiome	colorectal	F. nucleatum	0.86	Liang et al., 202089
Fecal microbiome	lung	various bacteria	0.76	Zheng et al., 202093
Plasma cell-free DNA	various (20) types	various bacteria	0.90	Poore et al., 202098
Plasma cell-free DNA	various (20) types	various fungi	0.80	Narunsky-Haziza et al., 202299
Plasma cell-free DNA	various (20) types	various bacteria + fungi	0.92	Narunsky-Haziza et al., 202299