According to a study published in Nature by an international team led by the University of California, San Diego, childhood exposure to the bacterial toxin colibactin could drive early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC).

The first author is Marcos Díaz-Gay, PhD, head of the new Digital Genomics Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain.

CRC is considered a disease associated with aging; however, its incidence in adults younger than 50 years has approximately doubled each decade over the past 20 years in various countries. If current trends persist, it could become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among young adults by 2030.

Childhood Exposure

Díaz-Gay told the Medscape Spanish edition that it remains unclear what factors over the past tw

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