Inflammatory bowel disease screening

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Main page
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Overview
Causes
Classification Crohn's disease Ulcerative colitis
Differential Diagnosis

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Overview

While patients of IBD do have an increased risk of colorectal cancer this is usually caught much earlier than the general population in routine surveillance of the colon by colonoscopy, and therefore patients are much more likely to survive.