More on inflammation and bowel cancer

June 9, 2008

A diagram of the bowelsJust a quick one. We’ve written before about the links between inflammation and cancer, and couched a lot of what we’ve written in all sorts of caveats like ‘may’ and ‘might’.

Well, last week, a few more of those caveats fell away, and the picture became just a little bit clearer.

Scientists in the US have, for the first time, demonstrated that chronic inflammation leads to pre-cancerous problems, DNA damage and, ultimately, bowel and stomach cancer, amongst mice who have been bred to have sluggish ‘DNA repair mechanisms’.

This is a really important finding. Read the rest of this entry »

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