Chronic inflammation has long been linked to cancer, but how is that history retained in the tissue?
In a new #Nature study, Nagaraja et al show that colitis leaves a lasting epigenetic memory in colonic stem cells, which persists after inflammation resolves & primes for subsequent tumor growth 🧪🔬
Chronic inflammation increases the risk of colon cancer. This inflammation drives epigenetic changes in the nucleus of stem cells that promote tumour formation.
