DOM Grand Rounds | John Carethers, MD

medschool.cuan... | 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.