Laryngopharyngeal cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The patients with a current or past history of laryngopharyngeal cancer and healthy subjects
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Patients whom the principal investigator determined to be inappropriate to participate in the study 2. Patients under the age of 20 3. Patients who are pregnant 4. Patients who underwent antibiotic treatment within a month 5. Patients who took proton pump inhibitors within a month
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Microbial profile between the patients with laryngopharyngeal cancer and healthy subjects 1) Relative abundance at the level of phylum/genus/OTU level 2) Alfa-diversity [Shannon index, Chao1 index, ACE, Number of observed OTUs] 3) Beta-diversity [weighted and unweighted UniFrac distance-based analysis] | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Endoscopy