An analysis of exposome traits in patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) (<50 years) compared with late-onset CRC (≥70 years) based on epigenetic markers shows that pesticide usage, in particular of picloram, is associated with early-onset CRC.
Colon cancer rates in people under 50 have roughly doubled in twenty years. Nobody knows why. The incidence in the sigmoid colon nearly doubled from 1998 to 2022 in people aged 20–49, and 22% of all colorectal cancers are now diagnosed in people under 55 — twice the 11% figure from 1995, even as that age group has been
Maas et al. link picloram to early-onset colorectal cancer in the United States. Yet the incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer rose in parallel in Germany, where publicly available national herbicide sales data report zero picloram sales for 16 consecutive years (1990–2005).
On observe une hausse inquiétante des cancers du côlon chez les moins de 50 ans. Si nos modes de vie sont souvent pointés du doigt, une nouvelle étude vient de mettre en lumière l’incidence des pesticides, notamment le picloram