Now that I have your attention:

“What we think happens is that when you have a young child, a year old, two years old, their microbiome and their immune system are getting formed. The microbiome in the colon. … Um, and if they get this infection, they get many, many mutations. And if you get many, many mutations at an early age, including some of the driving mutations that cause cancer, then if you get it at age two, well now you are on the fast track for cancer.
You get cancer in 20 or 30 years when you're a young adult.” -Prof. Ludmil Alexandrov.

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