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University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Shria Kumar MD

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“It’s pretty striking that multiple studies, including ours, have found that biological age provides distinct health information, and that could help us prevent cancer,” explained Shria Kumar, MD, a colorectal cancer researcher at Sylvester and the senior and corresponding author of a new study linking biological age and accelerated aging with early colon cancer risk.

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