Table 3. The comparison of bacterial community in LSCC group, normal tissue adjacent to tumor group, and control group at the levels of phyla and genera.
Cancer – Adjacent | Cancer – Control | Adjacent – Control | |
p value* | p value§ | p value† | |
Phyla | |||
Firmicutes | 0.37 | 0.004 | 0.051 |
Fusobacteria | 0.09 | 0.001 | 0.14 |
Bacteroidetes | 0.59 | 0.11 | 0.04 |
Proteobacteria | 0.81 | 0.73 | 0.56 |
Actinobacteria | 0.78 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Genera | |||
Streptococcus | 0.33 | <0.001 | 0.002 |
Fusobacterium | 0.09 | 0.002 | 0.17 |
Prevotella | 0.41 | 0.04 | 0.005 |
Neisseria | 0.33 | 0.46 | 0.78 |
Gemella | 0.98 | 0.17 | 0.15 |
The comparison of bacterial composition between LSCC tumor group and normal tissue adjacent to tumor group; § the comparison of bacterial composition between LSCC tumor group and control group; † the comparison of bacterial composition of normal tissue adjacent to tumor group and control group. p value were analyzed from Student t-test and matched to Figure 5.