The gut microbiome changes with age and affects regions beyond the gut, including the ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment. In this review summarizing the literature on the gut microbiome in ovarian cancer and in aging, we note trends in the microbiota composition common to both phenomena and trends that are distinctly opposite. Both ovarian cancer and aging are characterized by an increase in proinflammatory bacterial species, particularly those belonging to phylum Proteobacteria and genus
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