People from minority racial and ethnic groups continue to experience disproportionate cancer incidences and cancer-associated mortality rates. In this Comment, Byrd and Wolf explore the contribution of non-medical factors to the composition of the gut microbiome, and how this may be an actionable target for reducing these disparities.

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微生物组是种族和民族癌症差异的决定因素

 来自少数种族和族裔群体的人们继续经历不成比例的癌症发病率和癌症相关死亡率。在这篇评论中，伯德和沃尔夫探讨了非医学因素对肠道微生物组组成的贡献，以及这如何成为减少这些差异的可行目标。