Recent articles from @propublica provide details on how PFOs and other synthetic chemicals have been detected in humans for decades. What link if any they have to cancer incidence particularly in young adults requires investigation... www.propublica.org/article/prop... #GI25 #OnlyOncsInTheSymposium
CRC as an example: 2-3-fold higher incidence for people born in the 1990s vs the 1950s, per the
@AmericanCancer Society. What was different over that era? Wider exposure to chemicals like PFOs, microplastics, and others may hold the key cancer.org/cancer/risk-... #GI25 #OnlyOncsInTheSymposium
We know about what factors we can avoid, but what ones could we avoid if we knew about them? The role of the gut #microbiome has come under the microscope - Fusobacterium nucleatum and a few other culprits are implicated, but why are they there?
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