King's College to investigate global surge in bowel cancer cases among under-50s
Professor Tim Spector will lead a team at King’s College London to investigate a surge in bowel cancer cases among young people.
The team at King’s, alongside nine other global universities, will study factors contributing to early-onset bowel cancer by analysing samples from diverse populations worldwide.
They will look and poor and new risk factors including environmental and social factors. In laboratory experiments, the scientists will investigate how these factors lead to cell changes linked to early-onset bowel cancer.
