Dr. Logan Spector

And, you know, the soot gets everywhere.

We're all guys on this call, so I'll just go there.

They especially were not washing their scrotum.

And like, you know, there's ash up in there.

They had an epidemic of scrotal cancer, a really skin cancer of the scrotum.

And there's a guy named Percival Potts

who first made the connection to this burned material and the cancer there.

So years later, when, you know, believe it or not, it was controversial about whether cigarettes cause lung cancer, they kind of reached back and said, well, we connected burnt material,

to skin cancer in the chimney sweeps.

And, you know, maybe inhaling burnt material could be unhealthy, right?

And, you know, same thing applies to burnt material when you eat it.

Yeah, great questions.

And first, we should kind of start with the numbers.

You know, we track cancer incidents very well in this country.

There's like a central cancer registry in every state, but also internationally.

And basically everywhere in virtually every population,

There's an increase in early onset colorectal cancer.

We define that as less than 50.

And they came up with the name early onset because, you know, people in their 40s calling them young adults seems a little funny.

Right.