Saliva and Lung Microbiome Associations with Electronic Cigarette Use and Smoking.
Kevin L YingTheodore M BraskyJo L FreudenheimJoseph P McElroyQuentin A NickersonMin-Ae SongDaniel Y WengMark D WewersNoah B WhitemanEwy A MathPeter G ShieldsPublished in: Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) (2022)
The microbiome affects cancer and other disease risk. The effects of e-cig usage on the lung microbiome are essentially unknown. Given the importance of lung microbiome dysbiosis populated by oral species which have been observed to drive lung cancer progression, it is important to study effects of e-cig use on microbiome.