Advances in Care

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Research Reveals Potential Causes Behind the Rise in Early-Onset Colon Cancer

Research Reveals Potential Causes Behind the Rise in Early-Onset Colon Cancer1 Oct17 min

On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh revisits her recent conversation with Dr. Joel Gabre, a gastroenterologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia, to discuss the ongoing rise in colorectal cancer rates among younger individuals. Dr. Gabre shares an apparent trend in where colorectal cancer is being detected in younger patients, and findings from his research profiling early vs late onset tumors using single-cell RNA sequencing.