Table 2.
Association between representative microbiome and clinical characteristics in patients before chemoradiotherapy (n = 79).
| Variables | Prevotella_salivae |
Saccharibacteria_TM7_G3_bacterium_HMT_351 |
Veillonellaceae_G1_bacterium_HMT_129 |
|---|---|---|---|
| p value | |||
| Age (median, years) | |||
| ≥72 | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| <72 | |||
| Gender | |||
| Male | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Female | |||
| ECOG | |||
| 0–1 | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| 2 | |||
| Tumor grade | |||
| 1 | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| Lymph node metastasis | |||
| 0–1 | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| 2–3 | |||
| Disease location | |||
| Cervical | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 |
| Upper thoracic | |||
| Middle thoracic | |||
| Lower thoracic | |||
Abbreviations: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status.