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. 2024 Jan 10;9:15. doi: 10.1038/s41392-023-01693-0

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

The role of intratumoural microbiota in the development of cancer. The potential effects of the microbiome on the cancer remain elusive. Six major mechanisms have been proposed to explain how the intratumoural microbiota influence the initiation and advancement of cancer, including genome instability and mutation, epigenetic modification, chronic inflammation, immune evasion, metabolic regulation, activation of invasion and metastasis. TAM, tumour-associated macrophage; HK2, hexokinase 2; TCA, tricarboxylic acid. Created with BioRender.com