Picking up microbial clues in early-onset colorectal cancer.
Picking up microbial clues in early-onset colorectal cancer.
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10.1136/gutjnl-2022-328427
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2023-06
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24.5
通讯作者:
Dey, Neelendu
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Dey, Neelendu
The recognition that early-onset colorectal cancer (EO-CRC) rates are rising has sent shockwaves through the field of gastroenterology in recent years. Cases of celebrities affected by EO-CRC have similarly shocked the broader public and have drawn attention to the importance of screening. After television anchor Katie Couric’s husband died of EO-CRC at age 42, she underwent an on-air colonoscopy in 2000, which led to a significant increase in screening colonoscopy rates that was dubbed ‘the Katie Couric effect’. 1 More recently, the acclaimed actor Chadwick Boseman tragically died of EO-CRC at age 43, again increasing awareness and discussion of the need for screening. Colonoscopy is an excellent screening tool but of limited utility to individuals younger than the recommended age of initiation of screening, which is 50 in many parts of the world. 2 While overall CRC rates have progressively decreased over time due to systematic screening, CRC has alarmingly been on the rise in younger individuals. 3 Approximately 12% of CRCs are diagnosed in individuals younger than 50, 4 prompting a recent shift of screening recommendations in the USA to age 45. 3 5 This lowered threshold for initiating screening will not solve the problem of EO-CRC entirely, as CRC rates in individuals younger than 45 are also increasing (eg, at rates of> 6% per year among persons 20–24 years of age), a phenomenon which started approximately a decade ago. 6 Indeed, the two celebrity cases cited above involved individuals who developed CRC earlier than 45. From a healthcare costs perspective, it is unlikely to be feasible to sufficiently lower the age of initial screening colonoscopy to capture all EO-CRC cases: despite rising rates, the overall incidence of CRC in young people is low, and therefore, the number of individuals needing to undergo colonoscopy to save one life is relatively high. 7 We need additional strategies for effectively identifying highrisk individuals. Emerging data implicate the gut microbiome and microbiomegenerated small molecule metabolites as biomarkers of CRC that could potentially form the basis for novel stool-based screening tools. 8 9Kong et al 10 ask whether the gut microbiomes and metabolomes of EO-CRC patients differ from age-matched controls and, importantly, from individuals who develop CRC later in life. They recruited 451 individuals that included late-onset CRC (LO-CRC; defined as≥ 50 years of age), EO-CRC (< 50 years of age) and controls for each CRC cohort. Using shotgun sequencing and mass spectrometry datasets, they identified bacterial taxa, bacterial gene, and metabolites enriched or depleted in each cohort. Generalisable features of CRC that they observed in both EO-CRC and LO-CRC included reduced alpha diversity in CRC, global microbial community differences compared with age-matched controls, enrichment of several bacteria (eg, Bacte-
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