“…The tumor microbiome It has been determined that microorganisms also reside in sites outside of the gut and other portals of entry [52,55,56], particularly in tumors, where they represent underappreciated environmental agents and can exert regulatory functions on the TME immune and inflammatory program [44]. Up to now, a tumor microbiome has been characterized in many tumor types, such as pancreas cancer [49,57], prostate cancer [58], breast cancer [59], melanoma [60], gastric cancer [61], thyroid cancer [62,63], renal cell carcinoma (RCC) [64], nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) [65], lung cancer [66,67], and cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) [68,69] (Table 1); Nevertheless, because of its low biomass, the characterization of the intratumor bacterial colonies has remained challenging. More recently, comprehensive analysis of more than 1500 tumor microbiomes across seven cancer types, using a mixture of assays like next-generation sequencing coupled with and the most abundant bacteria in colorectal tumors belong to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes phyla [70].…”