Jul 30, 2026
✦ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sunshine Coast researchers collect human tissue for biobank to study bowel cancer in young people
Sunshine Coast researchers are building a biobank to study the rise of bowel cancer in young people. They will collect tissue samples from patients under 50 to see if modern living is to blame. Lochlan Fennell said, "This is really troubling because we don't actually know why that's occurred."