Childhood toxin exposure ‘may be factor in bowel cancer rise in under-50s’ | The Guardian
23 April 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/23/childhood-toxin-exposure-may-be-factor-in-bowel-cancer-rise-in-under-50s

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Abstract PR010: Early-life penicillin blooms colibactin-positive Escherichia coli and drives DNA damage and tumorigenesis | Clinical Cancer Research
2025

https://aacrjournals.org/clincancerres/article/31/23_Supplement/PR010/770359/Abstract-PR010-Early-life-penicillin-blooms

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Childhood toxin exposure ‘may be factor in bowel cancer rise in under-50s’

Researchers say mutations more often found in younger patients’ tumours caused by toxin secreted by E coli strains

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