A tumor transcriptomic atlas across eight decades of life reveals distinct features of early-onset colorectal cancer

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This is a summary of: Porter, C.B.M. et al. Insights into early-onset colorectal cancer from a single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of colorectal cancer across the age continuum. Nat. Med. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04721-y (2026).