The ongoing research around cancer has produced a new result after a team of researchers identified a new gene that is essential to the growth of colon cancer and found that inflammation in the external environment around the tumour can contribute to the growth of tumour cells. 

The researchers, from Mount Sinai's Tisch Cancer Institute, said that they have discovered that the environment around a colon cancer tumour can programme what is known as a "super enhancer," a complex area of DNA with a high concentration of transcriptional machinery that controls whether a cell is malignant.