{"id":198835,"date":"2024-11-05T21:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-believe-popular-drug-could-end-the-mysterious-outbreak-of-colon-cancer-in-young-people"},"modified":"2024-11-05T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:24:53","slug":"scientists-believe-popular-drug-could-end-the-mysterious-outbreak-of-colon-cancer-in-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-believe-popular-drug-could-end-the-mysterious-outbreak-of-colon-cancer-in-young-people","title":{"rendered":"Scientists believe popular drug could end the mysterious outbreak of colon cancer in young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-believe-popular-drug-could-end-the-mysterious-outbreak-of-colon-cancer-in-young-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most recently, 90s heartthrob and Dawson\u2019s Creek star James Van Der Beek announced he\u2019d been diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the age of just 47.<\/p>\n<p>The rise is mysterious, but experts suspect ultra-processed foods, pollution and the over use of antibiotics could be driving microscopic cancer-causing changes in the body\u2019s cells.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of scientists across five nations, including at King\u2019s College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> London<\/a>, have been given \u00a320 million by charities including Cancer Research UK to fund fresh studies that will begin early next year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/why-is-cancer-surging-among-under-50s-these-scientists-are-investigating-mktfnhm9c\" rel=\"nofollow\"> The Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most recently, 90s heartthrob and Dawson\u2019s Creek star James Van Der Beek announced he\u2019d been diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the age of just 47. The rise is mysterious, but experts suspect ultra-processed foods, pollution and the over use of antibiotics could be driving microscopic cancer-causing changes in the body\u2019s cells. Now, a team of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}