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    • Professor Mark Jenkins

    Director, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    The key to young-onset bowel cancer may be gut bacteria

    We don’t yet understand why rates of bowel cancer have doubled in young people, but new research finds DNA damage caused by gut bacteria may be part of the puzzle

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    Health & Medicine

    Using the right test for the right person to detect bowel cancer

    A new online tool uses personalised risk to detect bowel cancers earlier and with greater precision

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    Health & Medicine

    What's gone wrong with managing bowel cancer in Australia?

    Using four different approaches, researchers are attacking one of our most prevalent and preventable cancers, with the common goal of saving thousands of lives

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    Health & Medicine

    A chip off the DNA block

    Scientists identify genetic markers that can help fight cancer before it begins

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