Background Tobacco smoking is a carcinogen for many cancers including bladder cancer.
The microbiota is involved in the occurrence, development, and treatment of tumors. We …

The higher incidence of bladder cancer in men has long been attributed to environmental
factors, including smoking. The fact that the sex ratio of bladder cancer remains consistently …

Purpose To better characterize the urinary microbiome in males and contribute to overall
understanding of the urinary microbiota specifically in patients undergoing evaluation for …

Mounting evidence indicates that microbiome plays an important role in the development
and progression of cancer. The dogma that urine in healthy individuals must be sterile has …

Background: Microbiome dysbiosis plays a role in the pathogenesis of many urological
diseases, including bladder cancer (BC). The aim of the study was to compare the urinary …

Objectives The human microbiome has been linked to the development of several
malignancies, but there is scarcity of data on the microbiome of bladder cancer patients. In …

Evidence suggests that microbiota may contribute to the pathogenesis of several diseases,
including cancer. In the case of bladder cancer, preliminary studies have found alterations in …

Purpose Recent advances in molecular biology technology have allowed identification of
microbial communities in the urinary tract, and urinary microbiome is associated with various …

Introduction Human urine microbiota (UM) research has uncovered associations between
composition of microbial communities of the lower urinary tract and various disease states …

Introduction We sought to investigate the association between the urinary microbiome and
bladder cancer, including the difference between nonmuscle-invasive (NMIBC) and muscle …