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What role does our diet play in the development of colorectal cancer? The team behind a paper in Nature Communications shares how their work evolved from tracking changes in the gut microbiome to investigating how dietary changes can affect disease outcomes. 🧪
Ketogenic diet in colorectal cancer - just how powerful is the gut microbiome?
Colorectal cancer is the second most common form of cancer worldwide 1. Concerning as this already sounds, the breakdown of these statistics reveals a far more worrying trend - while the CRC-related death rate has been steadily dropping in the older population (over 55 years of age), thanks to advances in screening, the death rate amongst the younger population has risen by about 1% per year for the past 20 years 2.
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April 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What role does our diet play in the development of colorectal cancer? The team behind a paper in Nature Communications shares how their work evolved from tracking changes in the gut microbiome to investigating how dietary changes can affect disease outcomes. 🧪