Variation in oral microbiome is associated with future risk of lung cancer among never-smokers.
H Dean HosgoodQiuyin CaiXing HuaJirong LongJianxin ShiYunhu WanYaohua YangChristian AbnetBryan A BassigWei HuBu-Tian JiMadelyn KlugmanYongbing XiangYu-Tang GaoJason Yy WongWei ZhengNathaniel RothmanXiao-Ou ShuQing LanPublished in: Thorax (2020)
Our prospective study of never-smokers suggests that lower alpha diversity was associated with a greater risk of lung cancer and the abundance of certain specific taxa was associated with altered risk, providing further insight into the aetiology of lung cancer in the absence of active tobacco smoking.