From colon wall to tumor niche: Unraveling the microbiome’s role in colorectal cancer progression

• Gissel García Menéndez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gissel García Menéndez, Raúl De Jesus Cano

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9851-2041

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• Liubov Sichel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Stellar Biotics, LLC, Rockleigh, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Maria del Consuelo López ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Yasel Hernández ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Ernesto Arteaga ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Marisol Rodríguez ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Vilma Fleites ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Oncology Department Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Lipsy Teresa Fernández ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Surgery Department Clinical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Centro Habana, La Habana, Cuba

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• Raúl De Jesus Cano

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gissel García Menéndez, Raúl De Jesus Cano

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rcano@calpoly.edu

  Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6888-5018

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