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. 2025;32(12):2390-2408.
doi: 10.2174/0109298673257429231108072717.

Inflammation and Stem Cell Stochasticity of HPV-induced Cervical Cancer: Epigenetics based Biomarkers through Microbiome and Metabolome for Personalized Medicine: A Systematic Review

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Inflammation and Stem Cell Stochasticity of HPV-induced Cervical Cancer: Epigenetics based Biomarkers through Microbiome and Metabolome for Personalized Medicine: A Systematic Review

Yufei Zheng et al. Curr Med Chem. 2025.

Abstract

Background: Chemoresistance by stemness in HPV-induced cervical carcinogenesis has significant implications for the overall disease-specific survival of the patients. To date, there are no reports related to the implications of significant aspects of inflammation and microbiome-mediated epigenetics in cervical cancers.

Objective: The current systematic review delineates the significant aspects of the inflammation-related pathophysiology, cervical cancer diagnosis based on the HPV-indued stemness, and microbiome-mediated epigenetic markers to develop personalized therapies to target the stemness-acquired indefinitely dividing cancer stem cells.

Methods: We performed a systematic review without a meta-analysis. We searched several public databases, such as Pubmed, ReleMed, National Library of Medicine, and Scopus, related to inflammation, metabolomics, microbiome-mediated epigenetic markers, and HPV-induced stemness.

Results and conclusion: The review significantly described the correlation between microbial inflammation and stem cell stochasticity of HPV-Induced cervical cancer and the expression of epigenetics-based biomarkers through microbiome and metabolome to foster the cervical cancer progression. These are major risk factors that can cause cervical dysplasia with substantial therapy resistance in cervical cancer patients. The qualitative and quantitative examination of the spatial transcriptomic expression of these stemness markers in the dividing cervical cancer stem cells has significant implications in the clinical sector to develop early personalized medicine to prevent cervical precancerous lesions depending on the prognosis of the cervical cancer patients. Mainly, the combinatorial regimen of current therapeutic modalities, along with microbiome-related therapies with future landscape of epigenetics-modulated therapies, may enhance overall disease-specific survival by modulating the stochastic dynamics of basal epithelial cells across the cervical region.

Keywords: HPV; Microbiome-epigenetic markers; cervical cancer; inflammation; metabolome.; microbiome; stemness.

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