{"id":183697,"date":"2022-03-30T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=183697"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:54:51","slug":"podcast-colon-cancer-nuts-and-early-onset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/03\/podcast-colon-cancer-nuts-and-early-onset\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Colon Cancer, Nuts, and Early Onset"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>Even though the overall risk of colon cancer in the United States has fallen largely due to diet, exercise, and colonoscopies, the incidence of colorectal cancer in people under 50 is actually increasing a lot.  <cite> &#8212 Daniel Rosenberg<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s good news and bad news about colorectal cancer in the United States. Overall, we&#8217;re doing a better job at preventing it. But doctors are starting to see it more in than they historically have in people in their 40s and even 30s. In the Colon Cancer Awareness Month episode of <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast, molecular oncology researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Rosenberg-Daniel\">Daniel Rosenberg<\/a>, the Health Net Inc. Chair in Cancer Biology, discusses his grant-funded research on the growing prevalance of early onset colon cancer, as well as his ongoing study of how nuts might impact our digestive system\u2019s microbiome in a way that seems to fight off inflammation in some people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MvnFbpISIP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/colon-cancer-nuts-and-early-onset\">Colon Cancer, Nuts, and Early Onset<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Colon Cancer, Nuts, and Early Onset&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/colon-cancer-nuts-and-early-onset\/embed#?secret=sc203rc47Z#?secret=MvnFbpISIP\" data-secret=\"MvnFbpISIP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health molecular oncology researcher Daniel Rosenberg&#8217;s studies find walnut consumption can impact gut bacteria in a way that seems to fight off inflammation in some people. He\u2019s also investigating why colon cancers are turning up more in younger people, in their 40s and even 30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-183697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:09:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183699,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183697\/revisions\/183699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183697"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=183697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=183697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}