medschool.cuanschutz.edu/medicine | University of Colorado | Department of Medicine Grand Rounds | 9.25.24
Environmental Influences in Colorectal Cancer Presented by John Carethers, MD, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of California San Diego.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize that sporadic colorectal cancer has historically had different ages of onset in various races and ethnicities in the US.
- Illustrate that recent changes in age of onset for colorectal cancer is driven by environmental influences rather than genetic influences.
- Use information that metabolic and microbiome perturbations are the leading theory for early-onset colorectal cancer.